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If Fox could go back ten years in time and look at the barely twenty-year-old himself in the eyes and tell him that hey, you have a home office, his younger self would look back at him and tell him that he has lost his mind.
It's such a small thing to call someone crazy over, but for the Fox back then, even having an apartment he could be secure about was a big deal. Having an apartment big enough to have a home office? Having a job secure and safe enough that he could work from home? Absolute lunacy.
There Fox still is, now, sitting behind his desk in his home office and looking out of the window towards the trees blooming in the back garden.
That barely twenty-year-old Fox would've lost his mind if he'd see the place where he lives now. Hell, any version of Fox before the age of twenty-five would lose their minds. Even now, Fox remembers the cramped rooms with at least five other kids, sometimes his brothers, sometimes not. He remembers how all of this stuff could with inside one drawer and one box, because that had been the amount of stuff he had been allowed to have. Living in a place where he could have his own bedroom, a home office, and multiple other rooms to spare still?
All of that had been a simple, too good to ever be true-dream.
One that he is living now.
Who is he lying to? Fox at twenty-six had lost his mind after seeing the place for the first time. At that point he had been living on his own for a while, and not in a bad place either, but still. It had been...almost too much.
The way Bail and Breha had looked at him with soft eyes after Fox had asked if it would really be alright for him to have a home office had almost been too much.
They would've given him at least ten home offices if Fox would've just asked. Fox knows that.
Sometimes, Fox thinks that he is getting more than he deserves.
Not that he isn't working hard, or hadn't been working hard for his own success. He had, with too much cheap coffee and by scouring the grocery stores for expiring products and by studying through every waking hour and working through half of the hours he should've been sleeping. He had done it all, and it had gotten him here, in it's own way.
Now he can have the good coffee and sip it patiently, while he stops looking out of the window for a moment and attaches the floor plans and the concept pictures to the email and sends them away. He hopes that the customer is happy, now. The job had been interesting and quite fun with all the challenges, but he had other jobs too that he needed to work on, so he simply couldn't spend more hours on drawing entirely new pictures and doing all the math again because the customer had suddenly decided that they liked radius windows better to the picture windows instead-
Right on cue, his phone starts to ring.
Fox groans.
"Seriously?" He mutters, picking the phones up. "That was fast."
The record for the fastest call back he had received before this had been what, five minutes? It had barely been two minutes now, so there must be something egregious that he had managed to completely overlook, somehow.
He takes one last sip of his coffee, before he answers.
"Coruscant designs, Fox Organa speaking", he says.
"Hello, Mr. Organa." The voice that comes from the speaker is not the voice of his customer, and Fox blinks in surprise. Had he actually forgotten to see who had been calling? There's only a number on the screen when he quickly glances at it. "Is now a good moment to talk? I'm afraid that his would be rather time consuming."
"Depends on what this is regarding", Fox says. "I'm sorry, can I ask who this is?"
"Oh, right, my apologies", the voice says hurriedly. "This is agent Strass, I'm calling on behalf of Child Protective Services. Could I ask you if it is correct that your biological father was someone called Jango Fett?"
Oh, this is already not going how Fox would like any phone call to go. No matter how many years it has been by now, just hearing the words Child Protective Services makes his skin crawl, and the name Jango Fett makes his head hurt.
Those two combined have never promised anything good.
"I do want to make a correction, agent Strass, before we get any futher", he says, trying his best not to grit his teeth. "Jango Fett was my donor. I have never met him in person, nor has he ever had custody of me at any point during my life, nor does he even know that I exist."
"Oh", agent Strass says. They sound rather young, and Fox wonders if this is one of the first times they're making this type of call. "You're still listed as a genetic match to him through a DNA-test."
"I am, but I did not make that test to be in contact with him", Fox says. "I made it so I could be sure that my siblings were biologically related to me."
"Of course, of course", agent Strass says, and Fox can hear them turning some papers over on the other end of the call. "Now, I understand that this is a bit of an unique situation, since you do not have a prior relationship with your biological father, but we have received custody of a child that is, according to a DNA-test, also the child of Jango Fett."
Even though Fox already knows that it is the Child Protective Services calling, he is still surprised by the words.
"Have they been removed from the custody of Fett?" He asks.
"According to our records, no, a third party had a custody of him", agent Strass says. "They had done a DNA-test for the child themselves, and shared the results with us."
Fox can't believe this.
Someone is still using Fett as a donor? Or Fett is has suddenly decided to return from the dead and make more kids, but Fox doesn't think that is plausible. Fox is nearing thirty, and so are most of his siblings that he knows of, and the youngest he knows are still way past twenty. He really, really hopes that the child in question is in their late teens at the very least-
"How old is the child?" He asks.
"According to our information, three months", agent Strass says.
-and Fox hopes for the world to be healing are instantly burned down.
"Like I said, I understand that his is an unique situation", agent Strass continues talking, "but since we have the information on the child's biological family, it was decided that we would first reach out to you, to see if there would be anyone willing to foster the child, before we would turn to seek out long-term fostering options from unrelated people-"
Agent Strass's voice fades somewhere into the background, as Fox thinks. He thinks of the cramped rooms, he thinks of his drawer and box and the small amount of things he had in them, he thinks about his brothers, coming and going, being replaced with kids that were strangers, that would also leave if Fox ever managed to become friends with them. He thinks about the times it would be him leaving, thinks about how sometimes he had not even had a suitcase or a backbag, and had instead packed everything into plastic bags and dragged them around, he thinks of the drawer and the box and-
Fox looks out of the window, to the back garden with blooming trees, that he can see from his home office. His office, that he could have multiple of, and how they still wouldn't be out of space, and-
"Yes", Fox says.
"-in case that- excuse me?" Agent Strass stumbles a bit with their words.
"Yes, we will take them. Him. The child", Fox tries not to stumble over his own words as he hurries to speak. "We will take him. What do we need to do?"
Bail and Breha had been through adoption agencies already. They have been cleared to be fit to adopt and foster. Fox has not, but maybe he could ge through one if he applies right now, maybe two adults with qualifications would be enough in the meantime-
Agent Strass talks for a long, long time, and Fox now hangs onto every word with all the attention he has.
Agent Strass tells him to come to the office on Thursday. Fox cleares his whole day immediately.
The call ends almost an hour later, and by that time, his customer has tried to call him six times, and has left three emails. Fox sends them a message of three lines about emergency and sends it without checking if he even typed any of the words correct.
Then he sits down and he breathes.
He just sits there and breathes for a very long time.
"Alright", he murmurs to himself, finally. He needs to go ask Breha if she is free on Thursday, Bail at least only has work then until noon-
Oh. Right.
Fox stands up, and he walks to the other end of the floor, and knocks on the door of Breha's office.
"Come in, love." At any other time Fox would've been really endeared over the fact that Breha could recognise him from the way Fox knocks, but now he has too many other things in his mind.
Breha turns around on her chair as Fox slips in.
"Hello", she says and smiles, but her smile drops a bit when she sees whatever expression it is that Fox has on his face. "Is something wrong? Fox?"
Fox takes a deep breath.
"I've done something", he says. "Without asking you and Bail first."
Breha tilts her head.
"Have you sold the house and decided to move to Antarctica?" She asks. Fox shakes his head. "Then why do you look like you're about to uproot us all?"
"I agreed to have a baby", Fox says.
Breha blinks.
"What?" She asks.
"Not with anyone else", Fox rambles. "With you, I mean, to get a baby with you, I said that we could get a baby but I didn't ask-"
"Fox." Breha stands up, and Fox snaps his mouth shut. "Calm down, alright? Breathe in, and sit down. I feel like this is not a conversation to be had while standing up."
She takes his hands, and walks him over to the other chair next to hers that she keeps for visitors, and she lets Fox slump down on it for a good while before she gives him an expectant look.
Fox breathes in, breathes out, and starts explaining.
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They go to the office on Thursday.
Even arrives on Saturday.
His things are packed neatly into a little blue suitcase with cartoon ducks on it, and he is dressed nicely into clean overalls and a light coat, and has new, tiny shoes on his little feet.
Fox has only one, slightly tattered picture of himself as a baby, and he feels like he is staring at a live version of that picture when Even is taken out of the car and given to him.
Bail leans over, and he smiles at Even, who does a little smile back.
"He has the same forehead curl as you do", he comments, and brushes Fox's hair gently out of the way.
Fox can only answer with a nod.
He looks at the suitcase, and he thinks of the plastic bags and the drawer and the box.
Breha puts her arm on his back. Fox thinks about the cramped rooms and the drawer and the box as they walk upstairs and go to the room right next to their bedroom, with light green walls and vines growing on the wall outside the window, with a little cot and shelves and multiple drawers for only one kid.
Even's eyes dart around the room for a bit, before he looks back up at Fox. His tiny fingers grab at the front of Fox's shirt, and he smiles at Fox with a gummy smile.
Fox hoists him higher, presses his face against the little dark curls on Even's head, and he pushes the drawer and the box away.
(He only remembers that he had already agreed on things to do on Saturday, when Thorn calls him three hours later.
"Where are you?" He asks. Fox brings the phone further away, and takes a picture, which he sends to Thorn.
"Home", he answers.
"What are y- what the fuck is that?"
"It's a baby", Fox answers.
"I know it is a baby! Why do you have a baby?"
"Because I do now."
"That doesn't explain anything, where did you get it? You weren't pregnant!"
"How do you know I wasn't?" Fox asks.
Even is sleeping on him, and he makes a little snort and curls just a little closer to Fox. Fox smiles, and does not listen to anything Thorn is saying anymore.)
(Modern AU co-parented with @t3mpest98!)
#a little fluff after all the angst!#I'll try to answer to all the comments on the last chapter tonight#but here have some modern au and Fox's baby acquisition#Even looking at all three of them and instantly going yep this is it this my fam :)#sw#tcw#Commander Fox#Bail Organa#Breha Organa#OC: Even Organa#my writing#Star Writing#ficlets#Modern AU#bail/breha/fox
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I can just imagine Steve loving when the seasons change and the leaves start to fall. His entire life, heâs lived on the edge of the woods with plenty of leaves to appreciate and play in. Heâll sit on a pool chair (less so after Barb) with a mug of warm apple cider just to feel the cool air on his face and see the warm hues painting the sky.
When Eddie joined the Party, he could never find Steve. In the spring, he was too banged up to look for him. In the summer, there were too many legal hoops to jump through and Steve had to play defense between the homicidal idiots of the town and the kids (and Eddie but he didnât want to look too far into that). Steve had no excuse to hide from him in the fall. So Eddie rounded the corner into Steveâs backyard full of offended anger and righteous fury⊠only to stall in his tracks at the sight of Steve lounging on a chaise with his eyes trained blurrily into the distance. His glasses were off, his hair was blowing in the gentle breeze, and his expression was content, not full of panic or trepidation as Eddie had seen in the past year.
In the comfort of the season, Steve had no reason to wear his usual armor nor a confident facade. He could be himself, and he loving doofus that didnât wear enough layers in the cold and only liked his apple cider slightly warmed like a heathen. Once that relegation came to mind, Eddieâs anger floated away. Instead, he was overcome with love for the man. He made a promise to himself right that second that he would never in over Steve Harrington, not the front that everyone else saw but this one staring at the colors of the leaves.
It took a few more weeks but by Christmas that very year, Steve was his and Eddie was his for the rest of their lives.
#I took a fall photoshoot with my dogs so now you guys get this!#they love each other for the rest of their lives until Eddie learns that Steve prefers Pepsi over Coke#Even that only lasts three days before he comes puttering back with flowers and a 6pack#stranger things#steddie#ficlet#steve harrington#eddie munson#Iâm not revising this
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Anyways I've been thinking about my Olympian Falls AU a lot lately and sat down and wrote some stuff up recently. Here it is. Enjoy.
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             Shermie stared at the wall covered in medals, trophies, and ribbons.
             âI knew you were good at boxing, but I didnât know you went pro,â he said quietly. Stan, who was digging through a large, sturdy, wooden chest, paused to look over.
             âYeah, for a bit. Helps when your dad is the god of boxing.â
             âI thought that was Apollo, not Hermes,â Shermie murmured. Stan shrugged.
             âThings get a bit muddled over centuries. Sometimes gods take turns doing stuff. I mean, how many official Olympian cupbearers have there been?â Stan said, rolling his eyes. Shermie smiled.
             Itâs still astounding how much he knows about Greek mythology. Before all this, I would have thought he knew a few gods, at best.  Then again, when you yourself are a part of the Greek mythosâŠÂ Even after a year, Shermie still found it difficult to comprehend that his younger brothers were in fact his half-brothers, as Filbrick wasnât their father. Rather, the Greek god Hermes was. As he himself had twin children with the goddess Athena, he had taken the initial news better than he would have otherwise, but it had been an adjustment nonetheless.
             Right now, they were in the study of the home Stan shared with his wife Angie, who was apparently a demigod as well, though Shermie didnât know her Olympian parentage. Last year, Stan gave Shermie the rundown on what to expect raising two demigods. But Shermie was back for more advice after a close call with a snake in Mabelâs crib. After Shermie explained what had happened, Stan and Angie insisted on giving him some weaponry to protect himself and his children. Regular weapons, like the knives Shermie had stocked up on after learning about monsters, wouldnât work against the threats that Mabel and Mason would face one day.
             âAnyways, if Apollo is the god of boxing, he didnât give that to any of his kids at camp,â Stan continued. âI was the best boxer there.â
             âWhy did you stop?â Shermie asked, as he had noticed the most recent medal was from a few years ago.
             âAngie fell in love with this ugly mug. I didnât wanna mess it up.â There was a brief pause. âAndâŠdemigods are more durable than regular humans, but we still get hurt. I didnât wanna take too many knocks to the head and turn into someone else, yâknow?â
             âYes,â Shermie said softly. Their mom had pitched a fit over Stan and Ford learning how to box as children, because of the danger it posed to them. He frowned at a gold medal for track and field. âAre you a runner?â Stan laughed.
             âHave you seen my legs?â He resumed going through the chest. âI could beat you in a foot race, but not any of my godly half-siblings. Iâd even lose to other demigods, like Angie. Ford, though, heâs pretty quick on his feet.â
             âBut your fatherâŠâ
             âIs basically the god of being fast, yeah. Not every demigod gets every single one of their parentâs powers or whatever.â Stan pulled a bronze dagger out of the chest and frowned at it. âWhat is- oh, this is Angieâs. Better hold onto it.â He went back to searching. âSome demigods are more powerful than others. I already told you Iâm more powerful than Ford. And Angie, whew! She got a lot of gifts. Some of her half-siblings, though, only got one or two.â Stan pulled out a bronze sword. âAha! Hereâs what I was looking for.â
             âSo if the track and field medal isnât yours,â Shermie said softly, âis it Angieâs?â
             âOh, yeah. Thereâs a lot of non-boxing stuff over there that isnât mine.â Now that Shermie had been told, he could see the various other awards intermixed with Stanâs. Stan put the dagger back in the chest, closed the lid, and stood up. âSheâs crazy competitive. When she gets stressed and needs to blow off steam, she signs up for a competition.â Stan grinned. âActually, I should show you her latest medal.â
             âI thought you were going to show me how to wield a sword,â Shermie said, trying to put his ADHD-afflicted brother back on track. Stan looked at the sword in his hand like heâd forgotten it was there.
             âRight. Eh, we can do that after. Come on.â Stan exited the study. Shermie followed, but paused to look at the bookcase on the wall opposite the trophies and medals. Heâd been so distracted, he hadnât noticed it there. The vast majority of the books werenât in English. They were in Greek. Likely Ancient Greek, given what Stan had said about demigod brains being hardwired for the language. A few looked like they could have been in a Gaelic language, but Shermie didnât know which one. âSherm, you can look at Angieâs nerdy book collection later,â Stan said, coming back to the study doorway. âTrust me, youâre gonna wanna see what Angie did last month.â
             âLast month?â Shermie asked, following Stan back to the living room, where Angie was watching Mabel and Mason. Her and Stanâs three children were napping in their rooms, as Shermie had dropped by unannounced. Angieâs head shot up.
             âOh, no, Stan, donât show him,â she moaned. âIâm so embarrassed by it.â Mason, who she was holding in her arms, babbled happily. Mabel was asleep in her carrier.
             âIf sheâs embarrassed, I donât want to-â Shermie started. Stan shook his head.
             âNah, she just doesnât like recognition. Which is weird for a demigod. And especially weird with her parentage,â Stan shot at his wife. Angie rolled her eyes.
             âI donât compete fer attention or glory, I do it fer the thrill of winninâ. Thatâs perfectly Greek,â she drawled in her thick southern accent. Stan snickered. He walked across the living room and stood in front of a mostly bare wall. The only thing on the wall was a picture of Angie and some people Shermie didnât recognize, as well as a case containing multiple gold medals. Shermie frowned at the people in the photo. Something about their outfits seemed familiar. His gaze dropped to the medals below the photo. He began to read aloud the inscription on the medals.
             âXXVII, so, 27âŠâ Shermie felt the blood drain from his face. âOlympiad, Sydney, 2000.â He looked at the photo again. Angie and the others in the photo were wearing the uniforms that the USA athletes had worn to the Olympic Games the previous month. Shermieâs head whipped around to stare at his sister-in-law. His Olympic athlete sister-in-law. Angie smiled sheepishly. âYou- you won multiple gold medals at the Olympics?â he croaked.
             âIn my defense, I didnât mean to go that far,â Angie said. Shermieâs jaw dropped.
             âAre you saying you accidentally competed at the Olympics? How does one accidentally win an Olympic gold medal?â he asked, his voice cracking mid-sentence.
             âLike I said, I like competinâ,â Angie mumbled. âI kept goinâ and kept goinâ and âfore I knew it the folks handinâ me a medal were sayinâ I won a spot on the Olympic team. And when I got to the Olympics, well, it ainât like I werenât goinâ to give it my all.â
             âBut- but-â Shermie looked at the photo and medals again. âWhy did I not hear about this? What did you even compete in?â
             âAh, well, thatâs the reason ya didnât hear âbout it,â Angie said. âI werenât swimminâ or runninâ.â
             âI still think you shoulda done the javelin,â Stan muttered. âItâs hot and youâre scary good at it.â Angie frowned at him.
             âI donât go higher ân state level fer track ân field. Itâs too high-profile.â
             âUh-huh, and how many of your half-siblings were in the Olympic Village with you?â Stan said. âThey donât have any problem with it!â Angie rolled her eyes. She turned her attention back to Shermie.
             âI did shootinâ.â
             âShooting,â Shermie repeated. He frowned. âThey- they have that at the Olympics?â Angie nodded. âI didnât know.â
             âThatâs why I was fine beinâ on the team,â Angie said. She shrugged. âEven bringinâ home a gold medal or two-â Shermie glanced at the gold medals, of which there were certainly more than two â-I wonât get recognized at the grocery store. Which is what I want.â Stan shook his head.
             âYour dad would be ashamed of how afraid you are of the spotlight,â he said. Angie stuck her tongue out at him, making him laugh. Shermie frowned.
             âBut you could have made the Olympic team in track and field?â he asked. Angie shrugged again.
             âSure. I wouldâve had to train fer it a bit, unlike the shootinâ, but I think it ainât out the realm of possibility.â
             âYouâre athletic,â Shermie said flatly. Stan placed a hand on Shermieâs shoulder.
             âWord of advice, Sherm. Every single demigod is gonna be more athletic than a regular human.â He grinned. âBut yeah, Angieâs more athletic than most. She buries her nose in science so much, people donât realize it.â
             âRemind me why I married ya, Stanley Pines?â Angie sighed.
             ââCause I pickpocketed your heart, babe,â Stan replied. Angie giggled. Shermie didnât pay attention to the flirting. Instead, his mind was racing, trying to figure out Angieâs godly parent.
             More athletic than most. A knack for shooting. What else is Angie good at? She works in infectious disease research. She plays more musical instruments than I can name. Sheâs eerily good at guessing who will win the football game each Thanksgiving. Her godly parent is her fatherâŠÂ Shermie stared at his sister-in-law. Her skin was the kind of sun-kissed that tanning salons could only dream of, nearly the same gold as her hair. Angie cocked her head curiously, watching Shermie with eyes the color of a clear summer sky.
             âApollo,â Shermie croaked. Angie smiled. âYour- your father is Apollo.â
             âYes.â Angie frowned at Stan. âAnd despite what Stan says, heâs very proud of me. He sent me a sign after the Olympics and everything.â Shermie frowned himself.
             âIt is odd that you would shy away from the limelight with him as your father,â he remarked. Stan snickered. Angie huffed. âBut- if your father is Apollo, and Stanâs father is HermesâŠâ Shermie grimaced. âYour fathers are half-siblings. That makes you-â
             âOh, we didnât get into the whole âyour godly parentage doesnât count unless youâve got the hots for one of your half-siblingsâ yet?â Stan asked. âBecause it doesnât.â
             âWhy?â
             âItâs best not to ask that question,â Angie said gently. She placed Mason, who was now fast asleep, back into his carrier. âAnd itâs far from the first question you should avoid askinâ, Sherman.â
             âYou have a twin brother, correct?â Shermie asked.Â
             âLuteâs not a half-blood,â Stan supplied. Shermie looked at him, then back at his sister-in-law.
             âHow?â he asked. Angieâs face hardened. âI take it thatâs another question I shouldnât ask.â
             âYes.â Angie stood up. âMy particâlar arrival in my famâly is a touchy subject. One I would ask ya to not bring up next time ya interact with âem.â Angieâs eyes bore into Stan. âAnd one Iâd like Stanley to keep to himself. Fer now, at least.â Stan held up his hands.
             âI didnât wanna get into it anyways. But, Ang, his kids are from Athena, so-â
             âDonât matter,â Angie said firmly. Fussing sounded from the baby monitor on the coffee table. âIf youâll excuse me, I need to go check the lil ones.â  She walked upstairs to the second floor and disappeared into the nursery. Stan turned to Shermie.
             âBy the way, you do know how you wound up with kids even though you didnât actually sleep with their mom, right?â Stan asked.
             âNo.â
             âHuh. Well, I can explain that to you.â Stanâs trademark mischievous grin, one that Shermie wondered if he inherited from his trickster god father, appeared. âDuring your first swordfighting lesson!â
             âNot in the house!â Angieâs voice called.
             âYour first swordfighting lesson outside!â Stan amended. He handed the sword he was still carrying to Shermie. Shermie stared down at it. He could see his reflection in the polished bronze blade. âDonât worry, Iâm gonna go easy on you.â
             âSomehow, that doesnât reassure me.â
             âRelax. If I do chop off a finger or limb or something, Angieâs pretty good at first aid.â
             âWhat about Mabel and Mason?â Shermie asked. Stan looked over at the couch as though he had forgotten about his niece and nephew.
             âOh, right, them.â The grin was back. âThey can watch! Itâll be educational.â
             âTheyâre a year old.â
             âYouâd be surprised what babies remember,â Stan said seriously. He walked over to the couch. Mabel was awake. She stared up at her uncle with wide gray eyes. Stan tickled her belly, making her giggle. âHowâs about you and your brother watch your Uncle Stan beat up your dad?â Mabel babbled happily. âBloodthirsty already, huh?â Stan looked back at Shermie. âYouâre gonna have your hands full with these two gremlins.â
             The stories that his mom and Stan had told him, of near misses with monsters and gods and prophecies, replayed in Shermieâs mind.
             âYeah,â he said softly. âI am.â
#I had to do a couple edits of what I originally wrote up#bc even in the last couple days I've changed some stuff for the AU#namely that Angie now is an infectious disease researcher#and that Angie has Junior (also called Lee) with Max in this AU before she marries Stan#hence them having three kids when Shermie is visiting#but yeah! here's a little something-something!#Olympian Falls AU#Stangie#Stanley Pines#Sherman Pines#Angie McGucket#my writing#ficlet#speecher speaks
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Hand in hand, two little boys walk down the dusty Texas backroads.
Theyâre almost identical, except the boy with the wine colored birthmark across his left cheek has his choppy hair in a tiny braid, while his slightly taller brother, who is like his mirrored opposite, has his dark brown hair hanging loose and messy.
The tiny baby they carry with them, in an old potato sack with straps attached and holes cut in it for his legs, looks almost the same, though his hair curls are different, and his top lip permanently curls up to show his gums and budding little teeth.
Just the three of them are running away from home.
Itâs hot, but itâs always that way out here in the middle of nowhere Texas, even in the pitch darkness theyâre currently navigating. The twins have grown used to it, their priority mostly giving the baby a bit of water on his head every now and again to keep him cool.
That, and one of them, the twin that walks a little more stiffly, and carries a knife with him everywhere, just in case, his goal is to make sure they arenât being followed.
Every few feet he turns and walks backwards, looking behind them at the long and dark stretch of road.
âY-You sure does wor-worry a lot, there Nu-Nubbins.â The shorter brother chimes out of nowhere, though thatâs not to say that heâs been quiet before per se. Heâs been humming and singing and laughing at nothing the whole way, noises the way he shows his excitement.
The one called Nubbins speaks fast and frantic, like heâs desperate to be understood, âC-Câaâint help it, Bobby. A-Ainât ya scare..scared?â
âNope.â Is Bobbyâs simple reply, his nose turned up high in the air with confidence that has his brother jogging for a moment to keep up with.
It embarasses Nubbins, to think that maybe heâs the problem. His twin is his idol, and he wants nothing more than to be like him. His little brain rationalizes that thereâs got to be a reason why they feel differently, âItâs.. itâs cause you ainât c-carryinâ the baby.â
But Bobby misunderstands what he means, âYerâ scared âa lit-little B-Bubba?â
Nubbins takes it personally, bad at reading tone, especially over the sound of all the darned cicadas and crickets and katydids chirping away in the fields and trees they walk past.
âI w-wish you werenât so me-mean to..t-to me.â
And now, caught in a cycle, Bobby takes that personally.
âH-Hey now listen p-pipsqueak. I ainât mean. I-Iâm the best brother. Th-The best.â
If it wasnât for baby Bubba snoozing on Nubbinsâ chest in the homemade bag, heâd have turned and started picking a fight with his brother. Meanness and hatred and spite are all they know. Bloodshed and mayhem and hiding under the bed from their big brother. Squeezing their eyes shut and crying so so quietly while they listen to their twin being beaten just across the room, or down the hall. It didnât matter. Violence was everywhere.
Itâs why theyâre leaving now. Nubbins feels kind of bad for thinking about tearing out Bobbyâs hair in patches, or biting him on the arm, or kneeing him in the chest over and over and over âtil he coughed up blood. Actually, really bad.
He looks over at Bobby, with his balled up fists, and reaches out with words, tries to make a connection from a different place, âcause he loves his twin. âCan..can you t-tell me what I-I oughta do?â
Bobby doesnât need guilt to change his mind, he needs to vent. He kicks some dust up and punches the air for a minute, and then he answers all calmly, ââBout what?â
âI âunno. D-Donâ want Drayton tâ fi..find us.â Nubbins worries aloud. Usually he isnât this nervous, usually he loves adventures! But this one is extra scary, and theyâre only so small, and-
Bobby doesnât share his fears.
âA-As if! You..You ân me both knows âat o-old fart wonâ e-even know weâre g-gone âtil tomorrow mor..morninâ at least.â
âO-Oh alright⊠But..but if we get in tr-trouble Iâmâa gonna be r-real ma-mad atâcha.â Nubbins threatens, a smile growing on his face as relief sets in. If Bobby says things will be okay, then they will. He just knows it.
âDeal.â Bobby agrees to accept his brother's future fury, quickly forgetting the topic and moving on to his next subject of interest, âGimme..gimme Bubba!â
Happily. Nubbins takes off the makeshift baby carrier and helps his twin get into it, loosening the straps since Bobbyâs got slightly bigger shoulders. Drayton always said that he was a parasite and sucked all of Nubbinsâ life away when they were in mamaâs womb.
Drayton would swear, with his fists or a broomstick raised up over his head, that thatâs why he was so weak.
They work together to get the baby carrier in place, by now Bubba awake in there and reaching his chubby little hands up for attention. Bobby heaves him up by his diapered bottom and exclaims, âShee-oot, B-Bubbaâs gettinâ he-heavy!â
It reminds Nubbins of something else their big brother used to say. He was always commenting on Bubba's weight or making mean faces when the baby would steal a little fistful of food. That was always too mean for Nubbins. The baby was just that. A baby! Just a little six month old guy!
He loves him, almost as much as he loves Bobby, and wants to take care of him.
Thereâs just one problem. âHow.. How we gonâ f-feed âim?â
Bobby thinks about it, skipping excitedly when an idea hits him, âI-I know! He-He really likes th-them funny lookinâ p-purple berries that grows by.. behind the gas station! O-On them little bush-bushes! A-Anâ Draytonâs always s-sayinâ ~get the-them things out yerâ m-mouth boy!~ anâ make-makes Bubba spit emâ out! B-B-But we can fee-feed âim as many as..as he wants!!â
All that rambling inspires Nubbins.
Theyâve gotten this far, why not! Itâs up to them to seize fate and leave behind their isolated farmhouse. They wonât let little Bubba hurt the way they have.
âY-Yeah alright!! Just.. jusâ gotta f-find some!â
âI-I th-think therâs some dow-down by the str-stream!!â Bobby remembers, taking his brother by the hand, and taking off running.
#tw child abuse#nubbins sawyer#bobby sawyer#chop top sawyer#bubba sawyer#drayton sawyer#tcm 1974#texas chainsaw massacre fan fiction#ficlet#added a tw to this one since itâs a kid fic and even though itâs canon I know itâs rough readin bout kids getting hurt#also.#yâall. look up common moonseed berries. for this to make sense. Iâm sorry-#there are about three endings we can go for. they get caught and have to go home. they eat the berries. or they live happily ever after#lettin the people choose cause I didnât wanna pick one ending
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Can't believe Scar saw a rapidly approaching, dishevled mumbo and went "he's so cute." I need to run unorthodox experiments on them.
IKR SAME OMG
Theyâre literally perfect for each other <- delusional
But seriously they have so much lore together in my silly brain and the few interactions they do have (WHICH HAS BEEN INCREASING A LOT LATELY MAY I ADD) has been FUELING the fire rapidly and gods gods GODS do I have many thoughts about them
#literally making an illustration type comic on Mumbos whole vampire timeline#Scar will be next with his vex schenanigans..#the worst part is I always cycle like three to five different backstoryâs in my brain for these two I CANNOT decide#but now that Iâve written a short ficlet (that no one will see unless asked) abt a few scenes of Mumbos backstory I think Iâm pretty set on-#-his part#Scar tho??? no clue#I have the Hotguy backstory (which I daydream about WAY too much) I have the apocalypse backstory. I have the single player raised by villa-#-gers for years and years cuz his mom dropped him off in the single player world when Scar wasnât conscidered a player yet since he was an-#-infant cuz it was a teen pregnancy and she was too scared to tell anyone so she just dropped him off with the villagers never to be seen#again. and since it was technically HER single player world when Scar DID grow up old enough to be recognized as a player he couldnât#access any of the 'exit world' stuff or anything like that since it wasnât his world#and then like a watcher or smth pulled him out of it so that Scar could be put through the horrors of gun related things for experimentstuff#and then thereâs the backstory of where scar IS a watcher. like not a person turned watcher he was BORN (if you could say that) a watcher#and like the other watchers wanted to do an experiment of basically 'could a watcher if stripped of its memories and placed in a people-#-world be able to produce its own feelings and emotions?' and so they did that to Scar but they didnât place him there as a baby no. they#placed him there as a full grown man so bros even more confused. and when the life series stuff started he had exactly one âïž dream per#Series and it was tiny little snippets of his watcher self but he didnât know that itâs him but like he felt a strange pull towards these#dreams so thatâs basically the reason why he kept coming back to the life games even tho they hurt him deeply as we all know#and then when he won secret life the secret keeper asked him what his wish was now that heâs won and he didnât ask to know who he was and#where he came from (since he just appeared one day as a full grown man with no identification) since heâs made peace with that maybe it is#better not to know. so instead he asked abt the dreams he always has in these series and wth their abt and the context and stuff#and then BAM the secret keeper just drops all that information on him and he has an identity crises :D#anyways. I put both of these guys through many horrors I just have so many ideas for scar specifically. oh also thereâs that backstory where#hes an assasin guy and he feels rlly guilty abt it when he gets split in half (gtws and btws) cuz like he has morals now apparently?? also#it explains the scammer stuff cuz he was a HUGE scammer bacl them#asks#hermitcraft#goodtimeswithscar#mumbo jumbo#redscape
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like a child
You know this to be true. It loves you.
It's self-evident, simple. Almost genuine. It comes to your mind not unlike mist. Ever-present in the cold halls â light, playful in its own way, swaying and flickering alongside the blue lantern flames. Faithful it follows your trail â like a child it wraps around your legs fiercely, like a ragged knife its sharp edges it slice through meat and bone. Blood stains ice and snow. It will be gone before long.
Confusion, panic, betrayal. The Voice You Know Well rumbles through the cavern. A timely gift, not meant for you. The Voice You Know Well speaks to you in quiet tones. Laughter, frustration and praise feel like one and the same when the voice you know well turns to you. It takes the shape of the wind, its caresses a ghost-like memory. Water drips from somewhere in the high ceiling above the lake. It's impossibly quiet and it holds your complete attention. You barely see it, just beyond your post, and something painful grips your hears so suddenly, so ardently. It carves a path right through you. Thunder bellows once more. A burning sentence, a harsh command. It is not meant for you; still, you falter too as you turn back.
Sometimes you wonder if it's taunting you. Sudden, icy gusts kick up gold dust, cracks in the black stone deepen like hollow grins, pebbles knock the rust off long abandoned rails. Sometimes you hear bouts of laughter, whispers, the soft flutter of wings, and the soft, safe blackness that has been your home disappears in blinding rage. Sometimes you fall, chasing butterflies. They must be beautiful. You don't think you know what colour is, but butterflies must be so elegant. Sometimes, when you fall, blackness surrounds you one last time.
Down in the depths, the empty, inky blackness bides its time. It waits, hungry. It misses you all the same.
You know this to be true. It kills you.
(It knows this to be true. Despite it all, you love it too.)
[AO3]
#(written before level 4 was even revealed. so like three years ago.)#playing decked out myself has made me feel a certain way#and since i'm making this blog to be a sort of writing exercises archive why not combine the two and resurrect this ficlet.#decked out 2#.my writing#usually i'd tag characters.#but like. i don't think ''pumpkin the ravager'' and ''pancakes the warden (first of his name)'' really... have... a tag lol.
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Ao3 Bookmarks are the best thing ever. I kudos, then try to summarize what I liked to find the fic again later.
You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? Youâre at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? Youâre bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that havenât been touched in over a year right?
You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????
Youâre treating AO3 like a community and not a content factoryâŠ.right?
#I once hyoed uo a marvel fic writer during the pandemic#I read every ficlet they posted for lonths and always left some sort of comment and kudos#I even got a few gift fics#that's what the site should be about#writing community#ao3#ao3 bookmarks#ao3 kudos#archive of our own#PLEASE YOU GUYS INTERACT WITH THE THINGS YOU READ#you can just say âI love thisâ or âitâs three am and I havenât slept yet cause I was reading thisâ#you can copy and paste a paragraph you like and add â!!!!!!â after it#theories in the comments! mention when you think youâve found foreshadowing!!!#if thereâs a part where you have to physically put your phone down and smile off into the distantce? TELL THE AUTHOR#youâre not being weird or annoying!!! it doesnât matter how old the fic is!!!#you can leave comments every chapter too!!! ITS NOT ANNOYING
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đđšđŹđĄđą-đđšđđđ« â ïž đđĄđ đđđ«đđđŠ-đȘđźđđ„ | a JJK series
đđźđđĄđšđ«'đŹ đđšđđ: another year, another kinktober for the blog; everyone say thank you to @blkkizzat for making me do this before i get off this platform bc i promise you i was ready to throw it in the trash, LMAO !! I can only hope that I can post everything on time...anyway, happy October, everybody!
2023 kinktober list âź masterlists âź playlist
đŸđđđ'đ đđđđ đđđđđđđđ đșđđđđâŠđ»đđđ???
All the material below contains 18+ content, so minors do not interact. Changes + added pieces will be updated; look through my RBs to see what was changed or added. Contents of the fanfics/pieces are specified in their respective posts.
â ïž = ficlet/thirst/scenario (Tues) | â± = fics (Thurs)
đžàŸàœČ . . . đŸđŹđŹđČ 1 :
â ïž đđšđ«đ«đźđ©đ đđ, đđđđČ . . . ft. bully! Gojo âź corruption kink
â± đđĄđąđ§đ đŹ đđš đđźđŠđ© đąđ§ đđĄđ đđąđ đĄđ | s. gojĆ + k. nanami + h. higuruma
Two demon hunters and a witch unite to take down a demon terrorizing the locals â sounds easy enough until the demon puts up a good fight and drags you three in for a night youâll never forgetïżœïżœïżœ!
đžàŸàœČ . . . đŸđŹđŹđČ 2 :
â ïž đđ„đšđšđđČ & đđđŹđŹđČ . . . ft. true form! Sukuna âź cannabilism/ blood kink
â± đđĄđ«đđđđđ đđ«đđđ & đđđ đŹ đđ©đ«đđđ | s. ryĆmen
The duty of a shrine maiden isnât straightforward â especially during the olden times. Could you take on the supposed King of Curses head-on and leave unscathed in more ways than one? Who knowsâŠ
đžàŸàœČ . . . đŸđŹđŹđČ 3 :
â ïž đđđđ đ§' đđĄđđđđŹ . . . ft. werewolf! Nanami âź breeding kink + knotting
â± đđšđŻđ đđĄđČ đđđŠđšđ§ đđđąđ đĄđđšđ«! | t. fushiguro
Not only are you drunk on a Friday night, but youâre a drunk, closeted succubus who is, unfortunately, under the care of the hot neighbor under your roof! Would you ruin the mood if he found out your little secret? You donât even wanna know!
extra!! to be announced soon...
đžàŸàœČ . . . đŸđŹđŹđČ 4 :
â ïž đđąđ«đđ§đŹ' đđđđąđ§đ đđđ„đ„ . . . ft. sirens! Shoko + Utahime + Yuki âź monster-fucking + foursome
â± đđĄđš'đŹ đđđ«đđąđ§' đđĄđš, đđąđŹđđđ« đđĄđšđŹđđąđ? | c. kamo
Having a phantom in your apartment sounds pretty scaryâŠ! But what happens when you finally catch that unexpectedly cute ghost creeping around and frightening you? AndâŠhow do you plan on punishing the little scrub?
đžàŸàœČ . . . đŸđŹđŹđČ 5 :
â ïž đđš đđđ«đŠ & đđąđ đĄđ . . . ft. ex-husband! Toji âź cockwarming
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đšđ« đđĄđ đđĄđ«đąđ„đ„[đđ«] !! | s. gojĆ + s. getĆ
Ending the month with tradition: pulling up all the best scary movies to watch and hanging with your two best friends! But it's safe to say that the thing poking behind your back isn't a knifeâŠaccording to Gojo.
đŸđđđđđ đŸïżœïżœđđđđđ đȘđđđ!!
Would you wish to be tagged? Please lmk in the replies or in my inbox!
Accepting the first 50 ppl ; still open!!
© đđšđŹđĄđąđ đ«đđČ2024 ââ±âźâ±â These tales have been transcribed and written by the original poster (me). Do not steal, edit, copy/plagiarize, or post any of my works on your own accounts, in or out of this app. Please and thank you.
#đŻđđđđ Ëââ§ê°á â à»ê± â§âË đŸđđđđđ: đșđđđđđ#kinktober#kinktober 2024#jujutsu kaisen x reader#jjk x reader#jujutsu kaisen smut#jjk smut#jjk x you#jjk x y/n#choso x reader#nanami x reader#gojo x reader#geto x reader#sukuna x reader#toji x reader#jujutsu kaisen x you#jjk fics#jujutsu kaisen fanfic#jjk x reader smut#anime smut
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End OTW Racism: A Call To Action
A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization
This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies
AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed âspiteficâ that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floydâs murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.
In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on âWhy Are We Doing Thisâ for even more detail.)
As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.
We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.
On AO3
Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include âEnd Racism in the OTWâ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creatorâs note
Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with âEnd Racism in the OTWâ either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creatorâs note, provide a link to this post
If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add âEnd Racism in the OTWâ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top authorâs note
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Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish
Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!
For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.
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Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!
What Do We Want?
Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:
Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims
A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes
These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.
OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:
Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months
Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings
Why Are We Doing This?
16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of Oneâs Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its foundersâ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a âThis Week in Fandomâ referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed âmaking change for a better societyâ through âconversations about race and racismâ. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.
Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:
Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team
Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others
And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS
By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.
Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.
It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.
This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.
We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.
#fandom#ao3#otw#EndOTWRacism#End OTW Racism#racism in fandom#organization for transformative works#archive of our own#antiracism#otw board
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SWEET AND RIGHT AND MERCIFUL | Spencer Reid x Sunshine!Reader
request: my DARLING @avis-writeshq says: OMGGGG EM CONGRATS ON 3K !!! soooo deserved and iâm so so happy for you!!! please may i request tea for sunshine!reader đ„čđ©· maybe the moment when she realises just how much she likes him (perhaps she was in heavy denial beforehand)? I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THANK YOUUUUU đ©·đ©·đ©·
description: The Sunshine rookie Spencer had heard so much about is the first one to make him laugh since he got out of prison.
length: 4.1k
warnings: Lucky Strikes episode, talks of humans eating humans, cm gore, blood, violence etc. UnSub gets creepy with reader. sex jokes, spitting water.
author's note: dedicated to @avis-writeshq because she is my GIRL when it comes to Spencer Reid x Sunshine brain rot, and also because she requested a Drabble for them but I couldn't stop writing and here we are with a full ficlet.
It had been three weeks, three painfully long weeks since Spencer Reid had returned to the BAU, nearly ten years since sheâd seen him lecturing at Pennsylvania. He looked different, but then Emily had said quite literally on her second day that their endgame was getting him out of prison for a crime he didnât commit, and it seemed only natural that being a fed in a foreign jail would knock someone around.Â
Sheâd been too nervous to speak to him on their first day working together, had stuck to Lukeâs side like glue because he was closest in age to her and he didnât seem to mind the way she could speak a hundred miles per hour. They had only really had any contact when she was chatting with Garcia in the kitchenette at lunch, when she was talking to the tech whizz about the crochet set sheâd bought even though she couldnât seem to wrap her head around the way everything bobbed and weaved and bobbed again, and how the woman on youtube seemed to make the tiny bumblebee seem so achievable while hers looked like a yellow turd.Â
Heâd come up behind the two of them, his footsteps deadly silent despite the fact he had sneakers on, and she wouldnât have even known he was there had Penelope not lit up with glee at seeing Reid poking around their office again.Â
âCoffee, honey?â Penelope asked, looking over the girlâs shoulder, and it was only when he murmured a âmhmâ that the rookie noticed heâd crept up behind her, leaning over to grab his mug from the cupboard, and she hopped to the side immediately.Â
âS-sorry, just shove me out the way next time, my mom says I have zero spacial awareness.â She said with a nervous laugh, and he didnât seem to care as he granted her a small glance, pushing the button on the coffee machine and clunking his mug beneath the tap.Â
âHave you met our newbie, Spence?â Penelope asked, friendly as ever even though the women caught the way his jaw seemed to feather with clenched muscle, like he was holding himself back from snapping, and his eyes were tired as he looked over at Garcia, barely flicking his gaze to the new face despite her prompt, âThis is Y/N, sheâs joined us from cold cases,âÂ
âHi,â The woman chirped with a quick wave, despite the fact he was stood only a foot away from her, âItâs nice to meet you after everyoneâs spoken so highly about you, Penny said you like invented the term genius,â
Spencer pursed his lips, trying not to make a backhanded comment about how dumb that sounded because of course he didnât invent it, of course it was coined in the mid seventeenth century from the latin gignere to mean âexceptional natural abilityâ, and the last time he checked he wasnât even born then. But he stopped himself, because she was just being nice, and it wasnât her fault that he hadnât been sleeping or that he couldnât eat dinner without waiting to hear a buzzer go off to let him know when it was meal time, and it certainly wasnât her fault that she was just a few decibels too loud with her cheerful tone and smile that he could hear in every syllable.Â
So he just gave her an awkward smile, and an acknowledging nod, the whir of effort from the coffee machine slowing down as his drink finished pouring, and he grabbed his mug, not even caring that the ceramic scolded his fingertips because heâd felt so much worse before and gotten through it.Â
âIâll catch up with you later,â He said coldly, not returning the sentiment, and heâd turned before he could see the way her smile dropped, her brows creasing in worry as she watched him head back towards his desk.
âDid I say something wrong?â She asked with a small voice, and Penelope wrapped an arm around her shoulder giving her a kind squeeze and a sad smile.Â
âItâs not you, sweetie, heâs just-â Garcia swallowed, her own pout growing over her red painted lips, âHeâs not like the Reid we used to know, heâs struggling,âÂ
And so she nodded, chewing at the inside of her cheek with a frown. It felt silly to have her feelings hurt, except sheâd been thinking about the day two agents from the BAU came to give her sociology class a talk on geographical and societal factors compelling crime, how sheâd headed straight to her tutor that evening to swap her major to criminology. Because sheâd hung on every word Agent Hotchner and Agent Reid had said, which definitely had nothing to do with the fact the younger of the two was so dreamy in his glasses and tweed jacket.Â
Sheâd been excited to meet him again after nearly ten years, maybe even thank him for changing the trajectory of her entire life. He was still handsome, and despite the fact sheâd grown up since then, had only thought about him as that hot guy who gave a lecture in her class that one time, she still had felt that silly fluttering feeling in her chest the second she saw him talking with Emily in her office the morning he got back.Â
And heâd look at her like she was a girl scout selling cookies; a passing face, a summer temp, no one worth getting to know.
She pretended like she wasnât the slightest bit disappointed, heâd been to prison for god sake. The guy had bigger problems than a little nobody girl from another department.
Things werenât much better the day they got the case.
âYou might want to cover your eyes for this bit, my little sugar plum,â Penelope said, looking at the rookie with soft eyes, and Emily smiled at her gently, knowing the girl had a bit of an innocent streak, not completely unlike Penny when sheâd started the job.Â
âWhy? Iâm sure itâs nothing-â She cut herself off when Penelope clicked onto the next page, and the image of a woman who could only be described as utterly butchered flicked onto the screen in full size, âOh,âÂ
âOh, indeed, rookie,â Rossi said with a wince, looking at the mulch of blood and muscle where her legs had been removed, and her fingers severed clean off as if with a carving knife.Â
Luke looked up at the girl, where sheâd gone a little peaky, and he patted her back gently, sliding his bottle of water over to her without a word.Â
âAll the telltale signs are here,â JJ said on a sighed breath, images of the rest of the crime scene flicking up on the screen.
âPentagram, legs and fingers gone,â Rossi agreed, Luke and Matt looking between the team with a questioning glance, as she downed a sip of the water.Â
âThereâs even one neat aspect right here,â Emily said, the tip of her finger pointing to one of the pictures of the floor outside the bathroom stall where the body was found, âHer earrings and jewellery are laid out equidistant on the floor,â
âSure as hell looks like him,â Rossi said, and she cleared her throat, looking to the older man on her left.Â
âLike who?â She asked, her eyes snapping to Spencer who opened his mouth to speak, which seemed to be the only time he ever did bother making conversation; when there was a body on their hands.
âFloyd Feylnn Ferrell,â He said, as if the original case had only been wrapped up last week, but then with his memory she wasnât exactly surprised, âA psychotic cannibal whoâd been killing under the radar for years,â
âHe killed ten prostitutes and then moved up to low risk victims,â Prentiss added, the rookieâs eyes wide. It wasnât anything sheâd never heard of, but it never made it easier knowing something even worse was coming after the murders.Â
âHe kept slipping through the cracks and avoiding justice so people referred to him as âLuckyââ JJ said, her eyes darting over the crime scene photos that seemed to take her back ten years to when theyâd seen almost an identical set of photos, like Hotch was about to call âWheels up in twentyâ any minute now.
Rossi sighed, looking at the younger girl who watched him wide eyed, âHave you eaten today, rookie?â
She shook her head dumbly, âWhy?â
âBecause the worst of it was he owned a barbeque joint,â Her face dropped even more, if that was even possible, âAnd he fed one of the victims to the search party,â
Her hand flew to her mouth, blinking at the seasoned agent in terror, because that was something she hadnât ever thought would enter someoneâs mind until she heard it. As simple as it sounded, for someone who had seen cases going back twenty, thirty years, some particularly heinous in nature, there were new lengths she didnât realise a human could ever go to, let alone would.
Penelope stopped, shutting her laptop lid and glancing at JJ in a plea for help, as the thought of what had happened after the Ferrell case rushed to the front of her mind, when the guy sheâd thought wanted to take her out on a date shot her.Â
âI have a computerâŠâ The blonde trailed off, heading for the door to the office room with a dazed look in her eyes, and the rookie watched her leave, her neck and palms clammy as she thought about what Rossi had just said.Â
âI think I have a computer too-â She rushed, and she bolted from her seat before she could think of anything else, dashing after the technical analyst because she feared she was going to throw up if she didnât get a breath of fresh air.Â
Spencer watched her hair swish as she scurried out the room, and he wondered how long she would last if she couldnât stomach just a few photos. He had struggled with the gore at first, sure, but heâd never ran. Maybe he was being cruel, but he couldnât say that a girl like her exactly fit the part of an FBI agent, she seemed⊠pure, like driven snow, and if anything heâd hate for the bloodied parts of their job to stain a girl so squeaky clean.
Emily nudged his shoulder, nodding towards her retreating figure when he looked up at her questioningly, âYou keep an eye on her in this case. Sheâs still learning,âÂ
And Spencer grit his teeth, because he hated the idea of babysitting when he had a dozen of his own problems, but he nodded indignantly.Â
He just hoped she didnât make things too hard for him.Â
â
The door swung open behind Ferrell, the UnSubâs sister, the midday Florida heat boring down on her back, Spencer bristling at her right as Luke pocketed his badge.Â
And then there he was. The guy from the photo, his thick, wiry glasses exact matches to the ones heâd been wearing the day he got caught, though she supposed a mental facility didnât exactly have funds for replacements.Â
âItâs no problem, Lori, Iâll speak with them,â His voice was a strong southern twang, and almost chillingly calm. His sister looked over her shoulder at him, the woman fretful as she glanced between the four agents, ten years of troubles on her shoulders. She sighed, running a hand over her neck nervously and headed back inside to be with her son, leaving them alone with their suspect on the doorstep, âYouâll have to wait, Iâm on my way to church. Itâs right around the corner so Iâm within the thousand permitted yards from the monitoring station,â
He quickly glanced at where Matt and Luke stood behind her, the former with his arms crossed over his chest as he eyed up the thin, twiggly guy who looked like the type to live in his motherâs basement until he died, not the type to cannibalise and murder.Â
His eyes darted over to where Reid towered over him, familiarity flicking in his face as he looked at the agent, and he smiled slowly, like something out of a horror, the uncanny valley of a face so normal when she knew he was so sick somewhat terrifying to her. He fed one of the victims to the search party. She heard it rattling around her skull as she saw the whites of his teeth, and she imagined him ripping into her then and there, her hands shaking. Â
âHey, I remember you. Whereâs your friend, Agent Morgan?â Floyd said, and she felt Spencer tense up beside her, which she guessed meant it was a sore subject as she jumped into the conversation, her lips moving before she could think better of it. Sheâd always had a habit of talking too much when she was nervous, or to fill gaps, or when she could tell someone was uncomfortable, sheâd always been told it was one of her more irksome traits.Â
âYou wouldnât mind if we took a look around, would you? Just while youâre gone?â She asked politely yet, for once, she regretted ever opening her mouth the second he turned his attention on her.
She felt something cold and dreadful run down her spine as he looked straight at her, his sepia eyes trailing down over her neck, running over her body and down to her hands that fidgeted at her sides.
They waited on baited breath, her stomach flipping with sickness as that manic smile drew even wider, trained solely on her, a thought privy only to himself somewhat amusing to him. She felt herself lean away without even meaning to, incidentally feeling Spencerâs arm bump into hers as she did, and the three men seemed to tense up as they watched Ferrell smell the air, savouring every second of it, his eyes blown wide with something unreadable. Lustful yet starved, like he was on a four day fast standing next to an open roast.Â
âYouâre awful pretty for an agent,â Floyd said, that drawling accent of his turning her stomach, and his eyes trailed down over her calves, and she cursed herself for wearing a midi skirt. But she hated jeans on her thighs, hated the way Florida air clung humidly to her skin when she didnât let it breathe, but she thought she might just hate the way his mouth filled with saliva more, âDo you like running, agent?â
âSometimes,â She whispered, shrinking in on herself even more as he took a step out of the home.Â
And Spencer felt his chest drop at the sound of it. She sounded petrified. But then, he would be too if someone his size looked at him like he was a five-course banquet. And he regretted ever thinking of her as babysitting, as defective, because she was clearly trying her best, and this was where it had gotten her. Right on the UnSubâs menu.
âI bet you do a lot of running, chasing after bad guys, huh?â Floyd pushed, leering towards her with another smell of her perfume, and she could have sworn his smile only widened into something cheshire cat-esque. She nodded with a worried gulp, her breath picking up when his hand began moving up to where a rogue stray hair fell out of her bun, running over her collar bone, her heart beating so wild and heavy beneath it.Â
And it was enough for Spencer to act, because within the blink of an eye, heâd side stepped in front of the rookie who seemed frozen in her spot, and Floydâs arm was shoved away where it hit Spencerâs bicep. Ferrell was forced to stop looking over her clammy skin with heavy swallows like he was imagining just how she would cut and marinate, and instead was confronted with a frown that could send any man scarpering, Spencerâs lips pressed into something furious, his shoulders seeming only more broad than they usually did when he purposely blocked Ferrellâs view from her.Â
âYouâd better get going, Floyd,â Spencer said, his voice a deadly sort of calm, and his arm stuck out behind him to keep her where she was as he spoke, âYouâre going to be late for church,âÂ
And Floyd listened, despite his smarmy smile as he dared a look at her when he passed by, despite the fact his eyes trailed back down to her jugular like he was ready to sever it there and then to string her up and cure.Â
Spencerâs hand fished around his pocket, glaring at the back of Floydâs head as he strolled down the street, tossing the keys to Alvez, âTake her back to the car, donât let her out of your sight,âÂ
And the two of them listened while he and Matt swept the house, because anyone would be insane not to when Spencer looked so angry he could have put a hole through Ferrellâs head without blinking an eye.
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âEating people, who eats people, what on earth is that all about,â She muttered, the four of them in the SUV heading back to the station. She sat at the front with Spencer where he drove because Luke and Matt were gentlemen and had offered her the extra leg room, and Spencer had zero qualms because he was under strict instruction to keep an eye on her.Â
She did that alot, he realised. Muttered when she was thinking about something. Where he went deadly silent when troubled, too focused on sorting through the mental files that seemed to be so resistant to organise these days, she was his entire opposite, always talking or humming a tune under her breath or playing an invisible set of piano notes on her knee, something to always keep the space filled.Â
Heâd hated it the first few days, the sound like a blaring alarm coming from over by her desk, cutting through his limited attention span, grating on his nerves and making him have to bite his tongue to stop himself from yelling at her to shut the fuck up. But then, it wasnât exactly personal to her, even the sound of the coffee machine had been enough to pull at his hair in frustration. At twelve years old, it spluttered and whirred and kicked back at every drink it made, every second of it winding Spencerâs patience up like a jack in the box.
But he found himself listening in on her mumbles, glancing over at how her frown screwed up her doe eyes, her lip pulling between her teeth whenever there was a tiny pause in between her words, before she started again. Heâd quickly realised it was the easiest cheat in the book to know when something was bothering her, that she was so much of an open book, not at all cold and guarded like him or so many other profilers he knew, that he wouldnât need to bother deducing her like she was his next UnSub to know what was wrong. She would just tell him as it was, wear everything vulnerable on her face.Â
âSomething the matter?â He pressed, Luke also keeping a close watch on her from the back seat as she shook her head to herself, and her head snapped over to the driverâs side, her expression entirely caught even though sheâd not exactly been subtle about her turmoil.
âM-me? â She pointed to herself, and Spencer nodded, trying not to smile because sometimes she could be clueless, not the dumb kind but something sweet, naive, and he found himself somewhat jealous that she didnât need to be the smartest person in the room to be worth something, she could just be herself, âYeah, I guess I just,â She huffed, running her hands over her skirt, âI donât get why anyone would want to eat someone else, it just-â She shivered, not in a theatrical or fake way but like a ghost had walked over her grave just thinking about Floyd smelling at her.Â
âSome cultures used to cannibalise other members of their society as funerary practices as early as twenty-four thousand years ago,â Spencer said, and she stopped fidgeting to listen to him, âThereâs evidence that the Magdelanians in North Europe used to turn their deadâs skulls into cups they would then drink out of,â
âThat I can understand, those guys were probably starving and itâs not like they can just chow down on a damn sabertooth as an easy lunch or something,â She said, and he bit his lip from stopping her to explain that the two of them were about four thousand years apart from one another, âBut like, when thereâs a burger king or taco bell on every corner, why are you eating women. Who eats women for breakfast lunch and dinner, like raise your hands which one of you would ever eat a woman,âÂ
Luke sniggered, and Matt smirked at the innuendo of it, the double meaning of her words flying entirely over her head.
âI dunno, Alvez, do you like eating women?â Simmons asked, a smug grin in his words as the boys cackled childishly, and Spencer rolled his eyes with amusement.Â
âPretty partial to it actually,â Luke chimed in, and she whirled in her seat to look behind her of scepticism, âHow about you, Reid?â
âYou guys are so weird,â She murmured, and Spencer took a quick glance off the road to see her looking entirely baffled, her feathers ruffled at the fact she was left out of the joke.Â
âTheyâre talking about oral sex,â He explained, because he remembered when that had been him for the longest time, and how it had made him feel like the butt of every punchline to not understand why everyone would smile at him knowingly, yet he found himself doing the exact same to her, his lips twitching at their corners.
Spencer watched her scoff, looking back at the two grown children in the back, âI take it back, you guys arenât weird, your gross. Why canât you be mature like Spencer?â She huffed, sitting back in her seat and fixing her skirt, âSee if you were grownups like Agent Reid and I, youâd know the term isnât eating a woman, itâs called focalratio,âÂ
Matt pulled a face of confusion, flicking his eyes to her, âIsnât that to do with a camera lens?âÂ
âDo you mean fellatio?â Spencer asked, trying his hardest not to smirk because he didnât want to make her feel stupid, except she just waved a hand at him.
âThatâs what I said. I see why they call you Doctor Read and not Doctor Listen,â She giggled at her own words, watching the trees go by her passenger window, almost entirely oblivious to the way Spencerâs face cracked into a grin, something easy and charmed in his chest.Â
And for a moment, he saw exactly what Penelope had been talking about when she wouldnât stop talking about how likeable she was and how it was harder to hate her than it was to love her.Â
Luke took a sip of his water, the bottle nearing the end as the Florida sun warmed it up, and he figured he might as well finish it before it became stagnant and undrinkable.Â
âActually the term fellatio describes only male genitalia, the female equivalent would be cunnilingus-â Spencer explained, and he knew she was listening because he felt her eyes on the side of his face as he spoke, except he was cut off by the sound of her screaming so loud he nearly slammed on the breaks then and there.Â
âLUKE!â She yelled, and when Spencer looked, she had water dripping down the back of her hair, soaking her shirt to her skin, her black bra straps suddenly clear as day as they pressed against her dove white top. Alvez looked mortified, and he found himself apologising between coughs, water dribbling down his chin where heâd been so shocked to hear that word coming from Spencerâs mouth that heâd completely forgone swallowing and simply spat the whole thing out right through the gap between the headrest and the seat.Â
And Spencer laughed; it was quiet and foreign and nothing on the roaring cacophony coming from Matt in the back, as her and Luke descended into a squabble, her proclaiming him as a disgusting alpaca man as she tried to dry herself off with his jacket. But she caught it, the small chuckle coming from her left, and she looked at him, the sodden shirt almost forgotten when she saw him laugh.Â
She thought then that she wanted to make him laugh like that a million more times. And she knew she had it bad for Spencer Reid all over again.
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I was talking with @the-starry-seas about cityboy Fox last night, and how he definitely has some problems with the nature. They said a certain thing would be funny. I had to write it.
Nature is good for the physical and mental health, the neon signs advertising plants and heatlamps for the citizens living in the towering buildings of Coruscant had said. Nature is good for the physical and mental health, the medical guidebook they had received at the start of their posting had said. Nature is good for the physical and mental health, the Jedi healer at the Temple had said. Nature is good for the physical and mental health, Doctor Brevent had said once Fox had landed on Alderaan.
The thing was, they were all correct, of course. It was all based on multitude of scientific studies, after all, and it wasn't like Fox didn't feel a lot better after only a single week on Alderaan. Of course he did. He got sunlight for multiple hours a day now, which corrected his circadian rhytm and boosted the amount of vitamin D in his body. He got fresh air, which did away the persisten cough he had had for the past year and a half. He got to move in an environment that wasn't all hard ground and harsh edges, which did wonders for the chronic pain on his legs and lower back. He woke up every day, listening to the soft winds and birdsong or soft rain, and it all just really, really made him more relaxed than he had ever been in his entire life.
So, yes, Fox would admit that nature was, indeed, good for his physical and mental health. He also loved Alderaan, loved the forests with pinetrees and hardwood and soft sandy paths, loved the mountains rising at the skyline, loved the little streams and rivers and lakes and the garderns around the Palace. The first time he had laid down on a patch of grass had quite literally given him five more years to his life.
The thing just was, that other things loved all of the same things as Fox did.
There had not been a lot of nature on Coruscant. Okay, scrap that, there had not been any nature on Coruscant. Whatever there was, was just patches of man-made greenery, reserved for limited population only, or things that had found their place in the darkest depths and shadowy corners of the planet. If you were on Coruscant and heard something that sounded too animalistic, it was your first, last and only chance to run.
It turned out that on Alderaan, many things were loud. Even worse, none of it made any sense.
Fox could understand the large cat-like predator that roamed around the woods at the foot of the mountains being loud. What he didn't understand was why the thing sounded disturbingly like a woman screaming. Even less he understood why the much, much smaller forest-cat, that was the height of Fox's shins and ate mostly small lizards also made a very similar sound.
His first weeks on Alderaan had been full of heart attacks. An evening walk with Breha, where she showed him the shining starling butterflies? Almost ruined because an actual fox had decided to sneak into the flower garden and screamed at him from behind a bush. Breha had thought it hilarious. Fox had thought about running away to some desolate moon in the Outer-Rim.
Now, after little over two years, Fox was...fine, with most of the things. He knew what all the animals sounded like. He knew not to sit on the ground after rain because there would be worms and snails. He knew not to go out for too long on the warmest days of late spring, because the pollen season was at it's peak then.
He had learned a lot of things, and he didn't feel like a stupid boy who had only ever seen sterilized white walls and concrete ground. Of course that was what he had been, but still. Fox felt like he could almost pass as a local these days.
Even certainly did, Fox thought, as he watched his son run along the edges of the small pond they had in the front garden. It was so shallow that the water barely reached to Fox's ankles, so it was fine letting Even be there by himself and watch the little water lilies and water bugs float on the surface.
Fox had not known a lot about babies when he had taken Even with him, but he had been more than eager to learn everything there was to learn. His son deserved only the best, and that meant that Fox had to also be the best father he could possibly be. Fox had learned that babies explored the world with touch, and that most of the time, they had no sense of danger, and would stuff anything and everything they got their hands on into their mouths.
It had just taken him a while to just figure out how much babies and little kids wanted to grab things and munch on them. It had been the thing that had made him most anxious, actually, once he had realised how eager Even was to put his hands and whatever was in them into his mouth. Fox thought he was being rather sensible being anxious about it. Too many things in the Galaxy were a serious choking hazard. Too many other things were...otherwise unsavory. Fox had almost screamed and thrown up at the same time when Even had somehow found a dead beetle and had already stuffed the fist that contained said beetle into his mouth.
Breha and Bail had tried to calm him down. It was a good thing he was vigilant, they had said, but not everything was so dangerous that Fox needed to lose either his sleep, his dinner or both. Kids needed to get dirty every now and then, they had said. It would boost their immune system. Bail had told Fox that he had apparently eaten sand when he had been little, and he was fine and healthy. Breha had continued with her own story of how she had eaten the leaves off of her mother's dayflower bush and the grass around it at the age of three because she had pretended to be a bantha while playing. She was also fine and healthy, and whatever health problems she had, were not the result of her getting some uncooked greenery into her system. Nature was good for your physical and mental health, they had said.
They were probably right, even if it all gave Fox shivers. But, perhaps, the problem was indeed Fox. After all, he was someone who had lived his entire life surrounded by sterilized walls or concrete ground.
Most importantly, Even was happy. Fox still remembered all too clearly the tiny, too-thin and bony baby wrapped inside the paper sheets in a metal cot, left inside the cold and lonely Kaminoan nursery. He still remembered that child, too small, too fragile, too quiet, a child whose big brown eyes had just stared at nothing at all and whose only way of communication had been wrapping his tiny fingers around Fox's.
That child was nowhere to be seen now. Even had a plump stomach and squishy arms and legs and a round, soft face, that was most of the time spread into a wide, toothy smile. He ran with little but surprisinly quick, wobbling steps, and babbled incessantly all the time and laughed loudly and without care every time Bail would scoop him up and twirl him around in the air.
Even lived surrounded by the exact opposite of the things Fox had, and he was all the better for it.
Fox watched as Even stopped to look at something at the ground, and then jump towards it, his hands grabbing at the grass. A small, bright green frog leaped up and into the safety of the water.
Fox held back a grimace. Yes, he was fine with most things these day, but there were still things he was less than enthusiastic about. Bugs were fine. He didn't go into a full panic when seeing one, but that didn't mean he wanted them anywhere near anyone's mouths. Lizards were actually pretty fun, at least the ones that lived on Alderaan, especially the little ones that lived on the trunks of trees and has round faces and equally round eyes and very stubby legs, or the blue ones that lived near streams and had become far too friendly with people, and would come over to see if you had something sweet for them to snack on.
It was the things that were wet and slimy and sticky that he was not alright with. Not that he would start to scream, either, but he'd much rather not have any close contact with any of them. He hated the feeling of them grabbing onto him, the many times featureless exterior creeped him out, and they were most of the time even more dirty than anything else.
Even jumped forwards again, falling onto his knees, and another frog jumped up from the grass. The frogs were fine. Totally fine. They were small and harmless and sometimes even kinda cute with their exaggeratedly large eyes. Sometimes. Most of the time they were wet and sticky and at least slightly slimy, but they were fine. It was fine, and they were definitely too fast for Even to catch. It was fine.
Fox glanced around a bit, Even still staying at the corner of his eye. Bail was also out, and was currently catching up with one of their Captains. Breha still had to finish up some work, but she would be out soon as well. Fox had brought his datapad with him, since he had a new book he wanted to read, but he had not yet gotten around to even opening it. He had been too busy watching Even play to be able to concentrate onto the story.
Speaking of Even, Fox saw him turn towards him all of a sudden, his hands clasped together and a bright smile on his face.
"Buir!" He yelled. He still couldn't quite get the r-sound right at the end, so it sounded more like Buij. Breha thought it was adorable. Bail thought it was adorable. Fox thought it was so adorable that he could cry.
Right now, though, he was just a little distracted about what Even was holding in his hands.
"Buir!" Even yelled again, as he stopped right in front of Fox. "Buir, I caught it! For you! A frog!"
Fox looked down on Even's little hands, that were holding something that was definitely not a frog.
It did look like one, but only in the broadest sense. It was much bigger, barely fitting in Even's grasp, and instead of being bright green, it was muddy brown, and had fat, bulging limbs and a large, bumpy body. Despite it being otherwise big, it didn't have the cute, big eyes of frogs, but instead it was staring right back at Fox with two beady little eyes, that were half buried under the wringly skin of its head.
Fox had a brief thought that the thing reminded him about the late Chancellor-turned-Sith, and he liked the thing even less.
It was also definitely wet, sticky and slimy, almost dripping clear goo from its toes.
"Oh", Fox swallowed. "Even, my little heart, that's not a frog."
How had Even caught it in the first place? Was it just too big to move as fast as the little frogs, and hadn't been able to jump out of the way in time? Possibly. It was very still in Even's hands, after all. Too still. Fox hated it.
He would've especially appreciated if the thing stopped staring at him.
Even looked at the thing.
"It's a big frog", he said, still happily enough. "Can we have it?"
The thing stared at Fox, like daring him to say no.
"No", Fox still said, staring right back at it. "No, we cannot, it lives outside."
Even was a well-behaved child who didn't argue too much, and always ate his vegetables and held to their hands if they went somewhere. Fox prayed to the Manda that this wasn't the one thing that he would argue about for some forsaken reason.
Even pouted a little, but then his head whipped to the side, and the big, bright smile was back.
"Mama!" He yelled. "Mama, look!"
Fox turned to look as well. Breha had made her way out as well, and was now standing with Bail and the Captain. She looked really pretty, with a golden band in her hair and the sunlight making her skin and eyes glow softly-
The thing moved in Even's hands. Fox saw it, and turned to look. It was still staring right at Fox, as it squirmed again. Even was still too distracted by Breha, that he didn't notice the movement.
Fox opened his mouth to tell Even to put the thing down, when it squirmed yet again, and with surprising speed, it drew its legs under its body and leaped up.
Fox didn't have the time to move. The thing's beady black eyes stared right at him as its round and squishy body flew across the small distance between Fox and Even, and landed right on Fox's face with an audible, wet smack.
One of its sticky, goopy legs stuck right into Fox's mouth.
Even was staring at him now, with wide eyes and his hands grasping at nothing.
Fox definitely screamed.
#I am so very sorry Fox#so very sorry#you guys have seen all the vines and tiktoks about frogs and toads just leaping towards people with murder in their eyes#this one is it#Fox is sure the thing is malicious and targeting him and who can blame him really#this is now Even's core memory#I also have photo evidence of a three-year-old me eating hay for some reason#I've been vegetarian over half of my life now so it must've been an omen#ANYWAY toad 1 - fox 0#sw#tcw#Star Writing#ficlets#my writing#Commander Fox#Bail Organa#Breha Organa#Oc: Even Organa#bail/breha/fox
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Fun fact, in the original S1 promo Peggy actually had a medal!
They cut it from the final version of the show, and Iâve been trying to find a high def enough version of the promo to read the words to no avail. Wonder what made them cut it.
outstanding leadership, extraordinary initiative, & steadfast devotion to duty
Daniel&Jack&Peggy, and medals earned in wartime.
"You ever notice that Thompson doesn't talk about the Navy Cross?"
Peggy froze in the middle of adding milk to her tea. After a moment, she put the bottle down and stirred carefully, thoughts racing. Without turning to Daniel or letting her surprise inflect her voice, she said, "What do you mean?"
Daniel shrugged, a little jerkily. "I don't know. Everything's always bigger and better with him, you know? He'll tell you how much he earns or how long his - ah, you know, he'll brag. But he changes the topic every time it comes up."
She tapped the spoon against the side of her cup. "Perhaps he -" She broke off, struggling for the words that would turn Daniel's attention away from the issue. "Perhaps he simply doesn't like to talk about things that happened over there. We've all been there; it's never anything like the medals or newsreels seem to say it was."
"Yeah, sure," Daniel said. "It just doesn't seem like Thompson to not tell everyone he knows about it."
"You don't talk about your Purple Heart," Peggy pointed out, not ungently. Daniel stiffened.
"That's different."
"It is," Peggy agreed. "It's different for all of us."
A pair of familiar footsteps joined them at the office commissary before Daniel could respond. Peggy glanced back down into her cup and added a generous spoonful of sugar.
"I see my top agents are spending their workday productively," Jack remarked, his smirk a sharp line in his face.
Peggy shot him a rather arch look. "I see Chief Thompson is having an equally productive day," she said. "Have you admitted defeat yet?"
Jack made a face. He'd been fighting, along with Agent Faut and some rather obnoxious pencil-pushers, to balance the New York SSR's budget for the better part of the week. Most of his morning had been spent in a meeting with the senator's aide.
"I got 'em on the ropes," he said. Daniel clears his throat, rather judgementally.
Peggy isn't quite sure who he's been more upset with recently: Jack, for taking the promotion, or her, for not being bothered by it.
His attitude was a bit annoying, to be honest. Frankly, she was never going to receive a Medal of Honor or the position as New York Chief, no matter who advocated for her or what evidence was presented to the U.S. government. Daniel had to know that, too; the man wasn't stupid. And he had to realize that having Jack in charge, where they could keep an eye on him, was better than any alternative.
"We were discussing wartime medals," Peggy said instead of all that. Jack stiffened; Daniel noticed; Peggy rolled her eyes. "I once knew a man who earned an Order of the Bath for strategic actions in battle." She considered the memory. "He had terrible teeth."
"Order of the Bath?" Jack said, disbelieving.
"For conspicuous heroism taking place in a sauna," Daniel said. Both men laughed. Peggy sniffed. They had no respect, these Americans.
"What about Carter?" Jack asked, still laughing.
Peggy blinked at him. "What about me?" she said.
"What kind of awards did Agent Peggy Carter deign to accept?"
"I didn't earn any," Peggy said stiffly. "Women aren't combatants."
That's a bit of an oversimplification, she will admit in the privacy of her own mind. There were a few medals she could have theoretically earned, from the Americans and her own government, had circumstances regarding her service not been so, well, unique.
Some Englishwomen had received medals, but their service had been different than hers - usually as pilots or somesuch, not the covert missions she had in occupied France and Nazi Germany.
She may have qualified from the U.S. Women's Army Corps Service Medal, although it perhaps would have required Colonel Phillips to pull a few strings. Peggy had occupied a strange place in the war: a woman, first of all, and therefore not allowed in combat or eligible to receive medals for heroism under fire. But she had also been a spy, someone who technically didn't exist; and a British operative working for the Americans. Both sides had simply sort of - cut her loose, after victory was obtained and she was no longer useful.
It was only due to Colonel Phillips' recommendation that she had this job in the first place. Peggy pursed her lips, then shook herself out of her thoughts.
Only to find the two men staring at her like they had just been dunked in ice water. It was a bit unsettling. She took a sip of tea.
"Anyway," she said. "I actually do have work to do. Daniel, try to keep in mind what I was saying."
Jack was frowning at her. Daniel was frowning, too, but his gaze flicked to Jack once when she spoke, before he nodded.
"Sure thing," he said, and shifted on his crutch out of her way to let her back to her desk.
: :
Peggy frequently found herself the last person in the office, nowadays, with the possible exceptions being Daniel and Jack. Right now, Daniel's dark head of curls was bent over his desk and Jack's light was still on in his office, although the blinds were drawn.
They've all been working in a companionable silence for the last two hours. Daniel was eating something that smelled hot and spiced at his desk; little noises kept coming from the Chief's office, the sound of a file cabinet being opened or the desk chair being pushed back.
For Peggy's part, she's been combing through reports of gun sales to women matching Dottie's description in the tri-state area. She has found three that warrant a closer look, and was just about to get herself another cup of tea and really settle in when Jack's door opened and he slouched out.
He stopped in front of her desk. She looked up at him and raised an eyebrow. He stared at her for a second, looking troubled.
"Yes?" she ventured, when it became clear he wasn't going to say anything to her.
"Can I talk to you?" he asked, rather abruptly.
Daniel was looking at them now. Peggy drummed her fingernails on her desk, then nodded and followed Jack into his office, where he shut the door behind them.
He then proceeded to stand at his desk, hands braced against the wood, staring blankly. Peggy was honestly starting to get worried, not that she thought letting Jack know that was a good idea.
"Chief Thompson?" she said. She didn't touch his arm, but it was a close thing.
Jack opened his desk drawer and pulled out a box. It looked like a large jewelry box and was made of navy blue leather, with gold detailing. Peggy didn't need to ask what was inside it - even if it hadn't had the name of the medal printed on it in little gold letters, she would have known.
"You should have it," Jack said. His face was grim and set.
"Jack!" Peggy said, shocked.
"You should have it," he insisted. "I don't - it shouldn't be me, anyway. And you deserve it, Peggy. We both know that." Jack glanced at her, then glanced away. "I was going to put it out on my desk but - I couldn't. I can't. You should have it."
Peggy stared at him, feeling like her heart was in her throat. Jack Thompson was a liar, and a fraud, and a self-serving, arrogant pain-in-the-arse to work with, but sometimes he still surprised her.
And, anyway, it would do no one any favors to make this into a bigger deal than it already was. She nodded, and carefully took the box and tucked it under one arm.
"I'll keep it safe," she said quietly. Then, more briskly, "Do you want me to brief you on the progress I've made in the Underwood case?"
"Christ," Jack said, rubbing his eyes. He laughed, a little wetly. "Yeah, that'd be great. Tell me you got something."
They talked for a few minutes. Jack agreed with her that there was meat in the rumor of a bank robbery being planned, although neither of them could fathom why a notorious Communist would want to rob a bank. When Peggy left his office with the Navy Cross in hand, Jack was pouring himself a Scotch, looking exhausted and like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
Daniel looked up as Peggy fastened the clasps of her purse and got her coat. "You leaving?" he asked, and then considered her more closely. "Are you okay, Peggy?"
"Yes," she said. "Just, you know." She looked at Jack's office door and clutched the rectangular shape in her purse tighter. "I need to get home."
"I'll walk you out," Daniel said, still watching her. "I'm just about done here anyway."
Peggy waited while he grabbed his coat, hat, and briefcase. She had to watch her pace a bit when she's walking with Daniel, but the company was usually worth it. Tonight, she was tired and a little shaken and a bit too reflective, and she appreciated the distraction of having to make small talk with Daniel as they walked to the subway station together.
As they were waiting for her train - hers was due in four minutes; Daniel's, in six - Daniel said, apropos of nothing, "I guess I just never expect Thompson to care enough about anything to feel, I don't know." He looked across the platform blankly. "Shame or guilt or, or loss. Or anything."
Peggy looked at him. "I know what you mean," she said.
"You know why he doesn't talk about the Navy Cross." It wasn't a question. Daniel wasn't looking at her.
Peggy tucked her heavy purse tighter to her torso and breathed out slowly. "Yes," she said. Just yes, and nothing else.
Daniel nodded, still staring across the empty platform. "Is it something I should know about?"
She gave that some thought. "It's not something I'm going to tell you," she said finally. "Not without Jack's permission, which I don't think he'd give. But it doesn't change who he is, not really. It might explain some of what he's done, recently." Then, because she wanted to be honest with Daniel: "Although you may not like the explanation."
He dipped his chin to his chest. "Alright," he said, then again, quieter, "Alright."
Her train arrived, and Peggy boarded, wishing Daniel a good night. Peggy observed him through the car's dirty, cracked window, a dark figure braced on his crutch, looking down at the concrete beneath his shoes. Peggy put one hand into her purse, pressing her palm against Jack's medal as she watched him.
As the train pulled away from the platform, Daniel seemed to shake himself and turned toward the opposite tracks, where his train going the other direction was arriving.
#also I love love love the fic#love fics that dive deep into these three digging deep and even being angsty#also I love the reference in the title I do care for this kind of stuff#ssr trio#fics#ficlet#the title is based on the requirements for being awarded a navy cross btw. in case you cared.#<- taking prev tag for posterity#agent carter
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surprise, surprise |eddie munson x reader|
prompt: eddie forgets your birthday. or maybe he doesn't.
my birthday is in a few days and i wanted to write a little birthday ficlet blurb :) no aus, just eddie.
contains: angst/fluff. birthday doom. kinda asshole eddie?? kinda asshole friends?? really fluffy sweet ending. language.
âSo,â Heather leaned over, chin propped in her hands dramatically slumped over the counter. âWhatâre you doing this weekend?âÂ
âNothing,â You hummed, fingers flicking through the crinkled bills. âWhy? You know something fun going on?âÂ
âItâs your birthday.â Heather gawked playfully. âYouâre not doing anything for your birthday?âÂ
You rolled your eyes lightly, pushing the cash drawer closed. âNo.â You shook your head, voice tight.Â
âEddie isnât taking you out?â Heatherâs brows furrowed. âOr youâre not going home? Going out? Are you getting a cake?âÂ
Your heart sank, a familiar burn rising in your chest. You didnât speak about your birthday much, not much of an occasion for celebration to you, more of one that was dreadful. Another year closer to death, youâd grumble cynically. Still, when Eddie hadnât even acknowledged it, when your friends had all blown you off for other plans, a new kind of ache formed in your chest. The sting of being forgotten, of being unimportant and discarded- on your birthday.Â
It left a bitter taste on your tongue, sardonic and painful when you spoke about your impending birthdate. âNo,â You shook your head, chin ducked to your chest. You had never wanted a customer to come in so badly, save you from this painful conversation with your co-worker. âTheyâre all busy.âÂ
âOh.â Heather quipped, face falling at your tone.Â
âI mean, itâs my fault.â You added quickly- defensively. Why you were so defensive over the people who had discarded you so easily, you werenât sure. âI should have planned something earlier, but⊠I dunno, I got busy and life got super hectic and it just slipped past me-âÂ
â-No,â Heather shook her head, curls unmoving with the abundance of Aquanet she used, still. âThatâs really shitty of them, all of them. Itâs your birthday.âÂ
You stayed silent, wiping the counter half heartedly, swallowing back the familiar burn in your throat that choked you. âI mean, if it was my girlfriend or my friend, I would be bugginâ about their birthday.â Heather shrugged.Â
âYeah, me too.â You muttered. Bouts of memories pouring back into your mind. How youâd planned a party for Eddie, baked him some stupid cake from scratch that was in the Lord of the Rings. Youâd gone to countless second hand stores trying to find the ancient recipe, and it took you a day to perfect. Now, he couldnât even be bothered to take you out? Get you a cheap store bought cake?Â
âIâm sorry.â Heather muttered, a solemn, nearly guilty pout on her lips. âWell, youâre off tomorrow, right?âÂ
âYeah.âÂ
âI get off at three. What if we go out? We can go to the bar- oh, thereâs this new band playing in Franklin. Tommy could drive us.â Heather, ever the bubbly optimist, grinned, eyes shining with pride. It was endearing, made your heart squeeze with an ache you werenât quite sure how to describe.Â
âIâll even get you a cupcake. A good one, from Nadiaâs.â Heather added.Â
âYou donât have to do that.â You shook your head lightly. You and Heather were work friends, hung out on the rare occasion after work to bitch about work, about the other coworkers, the pain-in-the-ass customers of the day over glasses of Pinot. Selfishly, it felt nice to have someone excited for your birthday.Â
You hated that you wished it was Eddie, your own friends.Â
âWhatâs your flavor, hm? Chocolate?â Heather pressed, brushing you off cheerily.Â
âDonât get me a cupcake. Iâll throw it up if weâre drinking. All the icing and liquor.â You snarled your nose playfully.Â
âFine. Iâm buying you a drink then.â Heather nodded. She paused, nails drumming on the counter too. âAnd, I mean, if you want Eddie to come too, of course heâs invited.â Her eyes cut to yours carefully. âI didnât know if you wanted him to come.âÂ
âI mean, I donât know if heâd even be able to.â Your lips pursed, a cutting edge of annoyance in your tone. âHeâs so busy.âÂ
Heather cringed, shooting you an apologetic look. âYeah, that⊠Iâm sorry, that sucks.â She mumbled.Â
A stiff silence fell between the two of you over the whirr of the air conditioning blowing through the vents. âSince itâs so dead, why donât you go early?â Heather suggested. âI can cover closing.âÂ
âHeather, Mel will be pissed-âÂ
â-Mel will be pissed if she has to pay both of us for standing around.â Heather gave you a pointed look. âAnd you came in before me. I got it.âÂ
âAre you sure?â You hesitated. âI donât care to stay in case thereâs a rush-âÂ
â-At seven?â Heather scoffed slightly. âGo. Iâve got it.âÂ
âThank you.â You smiled softly. âIâll see you tomorrow?âÂ
âYeah. Iâll call you when Iâm on my way, âkay?â Heather chirped.Â
âSee you then.â You waved, cringing at the sing-songy Happy birthday! Heather shouted at you.Â
You pulled open your cubby, gathering your purse, your umbrella. You wrote your time on the clipboard, the phone taunting you on the hook next to it. Any other day, youâd call Eddie- call home or the shop, wherever he was, just to let him know youâd be home early. Heâd always reply with a silly comment that had your cheeks rushing with heat, warmth swelling in your chest.Â
Tonight, you decided against it. He was too busy, anyway. Too busy at the shop, with his friends, at band practice. You tried not to dwell on it, let your mind spiral and spin down a damning dark hole of what ifs. It consumed you anyways, on your drive home, the radio playing on a static filled station that you didnât bother to change. Background noise drowned out by your own hammering heart.Â
Eddieâs van was parked in the gravel of his driveway, leaving just enough space for you to slide in under the covering attached to the trailer. He always let you have that spot, closer to the door, protected from the elements- so considerate.Â
It was hard to fathom that it was the same boy who had forgotten your birthday, brushed it off like it was just another day.Â
Your throat tightened around the ever growing lump, hands tight from the white knuckled grip you had on the wheel when you turned the keys out of the ignition. The stairs squeaked under your weight, the screen door hissing with the familiar soft screech when you pulled it open.Â
âNo- Henderson, what the fuck is the matter with you?â Eddie huffed, his voice trailing in from the living room.Â
You paused, hand catching the door as it fell, quieting it as it latched. The air was thick, warm with a sticky, sweet smell. Music playing in a low hum from Eddieâs beloved boom box he kept in the living room.Â
âYou said to hang it!â Dustinâs shrill tone cut through the air.Â
âYeah, hang it high- Jesus Christ, I shoulda just waited until Robin got off.â Eddie was hidden by the wall, but you could practically see him pinching his nose, hand running over his curly bangs. âCan you- Can you go see if we can ice the cake yet?âÂ
âYeah, what do I do?â Dustin questioned, a silence falling between the two of them. Your lips curled, swallowing a giggle. âWhat? Iâm not a master chef or something. You act like I should know this. There wasnât a cake making class-âÂ
â-There was, you moron. Home Ec, which clearly, you failed.â Eddie huffed in annoyance. You froze at his heavy footsteps, voice carrying closer and closer.âWhatever, can you- just make it look nice in here? Put the rest of the streamers up and- shit!â Eddie flinched, jumping at the sight of you in the doorway. Wide eyed and still, like youâd been caught.Â
âBaby,â Eddieâs breath startled. âHey, uh, what are you- you said you didnât get- youâre home already?â His voice lifted, carried high in a squeak of surprise.Â
âYeah, I got off early. I thought you were working late.â Your brows furrowed at the tear of plastic, leaning to look around the corner. âWhat are you doing-âÂ
â-Donât look in there.â Eddie snapped, his hand falling on the doorframe, arm blocking your vision. You jumped, glaring at him with annoyance. âI thought you closed tonight?âÂ
âI thought you closed tonight.â You huffed, arms crossing over your chest. âClearly thatâs not true. What is this? Another campaign night?â You rolled your eyes, body burning with irritation, jaw wound tight with it.Â
âWhat? N-No, I-I thought you wouldnât be home until later, and Iâd have more time-â Eddie rambled, side stepping to block your view behind him.Â
â-Ed, I donât care if thatâs what it is.â Your shoulders deflated, a wave of painful exhaustion, disappointment falling over you. âI just wish you wouldâve let me know before you invite all these people over to play your game, so I could-â A shimmering glimmer of multicolored sequins caught your eyes, shining in the yellowed light of the kitchen, iridescent hued droplets cast over the cabinets. There, draped over the chair in bright, glittering letters, a small sash that read Happy Birthday! in obnoxiously big letters.Â
You paused, eyes scanning towards the cake, cooling on the rack next to the mixing bowl of icing, the icing spatula still in it. Paper mache streamers taped to the ceiling, hung in swooping bouts mixed with the shiny streamers and balloons all the way to the living room. Eddie had brought out the folding table from the crawl space, even put a plastic tablecloth from the store over it to hide the yellowing stains that would never fade.Â
Dustinâs eyes met yours, wide and darting between you and Eddie, still holding the roll of streamers heâd yet to hang. âUh, Happy Birthday?â Dustin shrugged.Â
Eddie huffed, shaking his head at him. âFuck, I-Iâm sorry, it was supposed to be a surprise.â Eddieâs foot bounced with anxious adrenaline. âI thought you didnât get off until eight, and-and I had it all planned, sweetheart, I really did. Steveâs getting the pizza, and everyoneâs coming over at seven thirty-ish, and I- I was even going to have them park at Wayneâs in the back so you wouldnât see.âÂ
Your chest felt deflated, void of any air, words, anything. Eddie chewed on his lip, hands twitching next to his jeans. âIt was going to be this whole thing, fuck!â He huffed. âIt was going to be a whole big thing, andâŠâÂ
Eddieâs heart leapt when your eyes finally met his. His fingers still drummed against the rough material of his jeans, veins filled with icy excitement, fear, anticipation? He wasnât sure.Â
âIâm sorry.â Eddie whispered, stepping to hover over you, voice dropping to a soft coo, hands sliding over your cheeks. âIâm- I wanted it to be a surprise.âÂ
You swallowed thickly. Eddieâs touch was soft, but it left you with a tingling burn when his thumb delicately traced your cheek bone. âYou- This is for me?â You squeaked.Â
Eddieâs lips curled in a half smile, brows creasing. âWell, yeah.â He said playfully. âWho else would it be for?âÂ
Your brain was deafeningly silent, stunned at every new detail youâd discover. âYou said you were busy.â Was all you could muster out, blinking up at Eddie. âYou said you had to work late.âÂ
âI might have fibbed a little.â Eddie tilted his head sillily. âTold a little lie so I could get this set up.â He nodded towards the living room, a balloon floating near the doorway.Â
âI just really wanted to surprise you.â Eddieâs shoulders fell. âI was trying to outdo you. Tryna out do what you did for mine. I called all your friends- even Alexandra,â You rolled your eyes at the mention, she was Eddieâs least favorite friend of yours.Â
âAnd I⊠I just wanted to surprise you.â Eddie blinked down at you. âJust wanted your day to be special.âÂ
Your day, the phrase wrapped around you, swirled through your veins like a warm hug, squeezing your heart.Â
âIâm sorry, it⊠I didnât think about work.â Eddie shook his head, running a hand over his forehead. âI didnât even think about it, and I-âÂ
â-Eddie,â Your voice caught in your throat.Â
Eddie tensed, cringing with expectant dread. Heâd ruined it, blew it, the tears were coming and they were deserved. Youâd done so well on his, surprised the hell out of him with the cake, decorated for his birthday campaign with lanterns and candles youâd thrifted. Gone all out for him, and he couldnât even pull off a simple surprise party.Â
âIâm sorry.â Eddie whispered, head pressing to yours. His eyes cut around the room, making sure a certain Henderson pest was lurking.Â
âSorry?â You repeated. âEddie, I-I am surprised.â You choked out, looking around the room with gleaming eyes.Â
Eddie paused. âYou are?âÂ
You nodded. âYeah, I thought youâd forgotten.â You admitted. âI thought everyone had forgotten.â Â
Eddieâs brows pinched in a confused scowl. âYou thought Iâd forget?â He muttered.Â
A watery laugh fell from your lips before you could stop it. âYeah.â You admitted. âYou were really convincing.âÂ
Eddieâs chest boasted playfully. âOscar worthy?âÂ
âYouâd sweep the competition.â You jested back, arms sliding over his forearms. His hands found home on the small of your waist, pulling you into him.Â
âI didnât forget your birthday.â Eddie said softly. âJust⊠for the record.âÂ
âI can see that.â You giggled. âThank you. Itâs-Itâs really sweet.âÂ
âYeah? Iâm glad you like it.â Eddieâs hands rubbed down your spine. âIt would look better but⊠Robin and Nancy didnât get off until later, and itâs just me and Henderson.âÂ
âIt looks great. Perfect.â Your cheek pressed to the soft cotton of his t-shirt. His nice shirt, Eddie always called it. Broke it out for special occasions.Â
âNot perfect. Fucked up the main part.â Eddie grumbled. âI can call everyone, let them know that they can park out front since thereâs no surprise anymore.âÂ
âNo, donât do that.â You shook your head lightly, chin propping against his chest to look up at him. âIâll leave and come back, and you can still do it. I can pretend to be surprised.âÂ
Eddieâs lips curled, pulling back to look down at you. âYouâre gonna pretend?â He tilted his head.Â
âMy turn to act.â You teased, brow lifting gently. âGive you some competition.â You poked his tummy playfully.Â
Eddie grinned, pulling you back into him, lips sliding over yours in a soft kiss you savored. Melting into each other, fusing into a gooey puddle- it was corny, a cliche. One youâd roll your eyes at if it was anyone else.Â
âHappy birthday.â Eddie muttered, lips brushing and tickling your own.Â
âThank you.â You whispered back, hands finding the base of his neck, pushing him back into you. Eddieâs hand fell against the wooden door frame, steadying himself in a rapidly heating makeout.Â
âUh,â Dustinâs voice interrupted the two of you, just as Eddieâs hands were sliding under your work blouse. âYeah, I-I finished with the streamers.âÂ
Eddie glared at him, jaw ticking in annoyance when you pulled away. âIâm just going to grab my makeup bag, and Iâll go.â You whispered, cheeks flooding with heat.Â
Eddie huffed, rolling his eyes at Dustin when you left. âWhat? What did I do?â Dustin threw his hands out.Â
âSuch a fuckinâ cock block, Henderson.â Eddie muttered, stomping into the kitchen. âPut the plates and shit out, will ya?âÂ
Your performance was Oscar worthy, Eddie decided later, when you stepped through the door of the now darkened trailer, gasping when the lights flickered on and everyone jumped out. You looked positively radiant, glowing with excitement at the small crowd of friends crammed into the doorway. Eddie kissed you, sloppier than he should have, especially in front of everyone, but he didnât care. Overwhelmed with affection for you.Â
He couldnât tell if you were still pretending when he brought out the cake, the room singing in a harmonious tone to you, candles lit and glowing in the dim light. Eddie didnât miss the way your eyes sparkled, fingers pressed to your lips at the now iced cake. When your fingers curled under his chin, sharing a fork-full of cake with him, kissing him after so quickly it left his head spinning.Â
His birthday girl, it was your day. Eddie never thought heâd love a random day as much as he did. He had no idea how important that day would become when heâd first met you, how it would engrave itself in his mind forever.Â
He was glad it did. Looking at you, giggling with your friends on the couch, then again, the next night, singing with Heather at the crowded bar- Eddieâs chest heart swelled. Proud that heâd surprised you, hopeful that heâd get to for the rest of his life.Â
Next year, heâd do it right. Really pull off the party you deserved. Heâd start saving now, planning too. He decided it that night, tucked between the sheets, your head still on his sweat soaked chest. He could still taste you on his tongue, lips numb from the time heâd spent between your legs. Lashes fluttering in sleep, curled into him, Eddie pulled you closer. Heâd get it right next year, you deserved it.Â
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Sunday lunch
889 words | Joel Miller x fem reader Summary: You have lunch with guests at Joelâs house. Neither you nor Joel are able to behave
Warnings: 18+ mdni. age gap (reader in her early 20s, Joel in his late 40s), infidelity, twisted relationship, daddy kink, possessiveness, spanking, oral and cum eating (m), piv, creampie
a/n: same âcoupleâ: Owned collection. Can be read alone, but I recommend to read the âOwnedâ ficlet first Thank you @aurorawritestoescape for beta-ing đ and @saradika-graphics for the dividers đ
masterlist | ao3
You were sitting between your boyfriend and Joel, squeezed, so that you could all fit around a small table. Brushing Joelâs leg with yours regularly, until you couldn't help but slide your hand down to his crotch. Just to be sure he was already hard. Thinking about how good he always fucked you. You thought he might be embarrassed to feel your hand on him, especially with another couple- Joelâs neighbors, facing the three of you. But he grabbed your hand firmly, holding you against his hard cock. No one noticed, and the forbiddenness of this situation soaked your panties a little more.Â
Determined to test his limits, you went to the bathroom and removed your panties, keeping them tight in your fist when you came back to the table. His hand grabbed your thigh under the table as soon as you sat down, as if these few minutes away from him and his sight had already been too much. You slipped your wet garment into his hand, forcing him to take a long, slow breath.
When you got up to bring the plates in the kitchen and get the cake, your boyfriend and the neighbors stayed at the table, while Joel stood up. As you opened the fridge, you felt Joel's chest press against your back, making you moan.
âYou like teasing me in front of him, huh?â he asked in a low voice, desire mixed with abruptness, his hand grabbing your mound from behind while the other was keeping you pressed against him.
âIs that why your pussyâs so wet? You like being naughty?â
âYes, daddy,â you whispered.
âYou know how much I wanna fuck you, right now? Right here? Just to remember who you belong to? Who owns you?â
His hard cock was pressed against your ass, his hand now on your waist, and you couldnât help but moan, watching the door out of the corner of your eye, even though you could still hear the conversation between the neighbors and your boyfriend.
âCome here,â he growled, grabbing your wrist and pulling you towards the pantry, closing the door behind you both.
He unzipped his jeans, taking out his hard cock, glistening with precum.
âTurn around,â he growled, and without waiting for you to do so, he spun you around, face against the wall. He lifted your skirt and thrust into your cunt in one go, grunting against your ear.
âJoel!â you whined, your walls spread wide abruptly by his thick cock.
âMy baby girl is such a tease. Grabbing my cock during lunch, giving me those panties, when my sonâs sitting right next to you? Fuckinâ naughty girl.â
He fucked you hard, his forearm pressed against your upper back, chasing his orgasm without seeming to care about yours.
âDid he fuck you this morning?â he asked in the hollow of your ear.
âNo⊠no, he fucked me during the night.â
You didn't know how to interpret the heavy growl that came from his chest. Hornyness? Jealousy? You hoped it was both, and felt a new flow drip from your pussy, soaking his cock.
âDamn, baby girl⊠You like to make me jealous, huh? Drippinâ like a fucking faucet. You get so wet for him?â
âJust when I think about you, daddy.â
âChristâŠâ
He spanked your ass twice, making you clench on his shaft.
âThat's fuckinâ twisted, baby,â he replied, still thrusting into you, spreading your walls that couldnât get used to his fat cock, no matter how many times he had fucked you already.
âYou think about me when he fucks you? Do you need to think about me to come?â
âYes, daddy,â you whimpered.
His hot cum spurted out, coating your walls. He was breathing loudly, catching his breath, and pulled away suddenly, spreading your ass cheeks and knelt to lap at your wet hole. Drinking your slick and his own desire, his tongue buried in your pussy and his nose pressed against your tight ring.
âCome on, baby. Come for me.â
You brushed your clit with your finger, twirling it under your skin, and only a few seconds were enough before you came on his tongue. Dizzy with desire.Â
He stood up and turned you around, grabbing the back of your neck with his large hand, pressing his tongue against yours. When he pulled away slightly, his dark stare locked with yours. Filled with possessiveness.
âI wanna know, each time he fucks you in my house. I wanna know, cause I wanna fuck you right after, and fill you with my cum. Ya hear me?â
You nodded, your eyes moving from his, to his nose, to his lips still shiny with your arousal.
âNow you're gonna be a good girl, and go sit back at the table. I'm gonna keep these panties. And when Iâll jerk off tonight, your smell in my nose, Iâll think of how I fucked you, here, with him in the next room.â
âYes, daddy.â
He stepped closer to you, his body pressing against yours, your back flush with the pantry wall, and slid his hand against your puffy cunt. You flinched when he brushed your clit, before bringing his finger to your mouth. You sucked on it, not taking your eyes off him.
âGood girl,â he said, brushing your cheek. âNo cake could ever taste as good as this pussy.â
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Four to Tango
As promised, part two of Waltzing for Three!!!
Thank you for helping me reach 200 followers for this little ol' blog of mine đ„° And welcome to all the newcomers!
The idea for this ficlet was born of watching my bestie @sand-sea-and-fable help out a pregnant friend by lifting her belly off her hips, and it just sort of spiraled from there.
It's also worth noting that I myself am not a mother, nor have I given birth, nor do I wish to be a mom (husband got the ol' snip-snip). So why this fic? Good question đ
That being said, I did my best to write about the labor process relatively accurately without getting into the super nitty-gritty of it đ So, please enjoy this weird little fever-dream of a fic, and please comment and reblog đ
Tags for the interested parties: @luhmoon, @legendaryflowercheesecake, @thebeserkvernid, @miffysoo
Pairing: Established Silco x AFAB!Reader
Rating: Teen/Mature (brief reference to oral sex)
CW: Non-graphic descriptions of pregnancy and labor
Insistent cramping had woken you up in the wee-hours one morning, swelling and ebbing in a slow rhythm that sent your heart tapping, a loop of nerves coiling around your gut â little room that there was for it.
Silco had been a terribly light sleeper ever since Vanderâs betrayal, ever since those early years on an under-tested Shimmer variant that left his brain unable to fully settle. So, the moment you shifted into a sitting position, he shot up as well.
âWhatâs wrong?â
Words got gummed up on fear and excitement in your mouth. There was a slight tremor in your fingers as they grazed over your belly. You had noticed it sitting even lower on your hips these past several days. While you were very done with being pregnant, you were still nervous and surprised to say â
âI think itâs time.â
With comical amounts of speed, but awe-inspiring grace, Silco flung himself from the bed, divesting himself of his eyepatch and pajamas. After changing into a simple set of trousers and an old button-up shirt, he fetched the stopwatch Jinx had invented to easily time your contractions, and wrote a tube prompting your midwife that she was needed. It had been decided early on that the babeâs delivery â barring any complications â would happen at The Last Drop. You, nor Silco, were willing to venture outside to a clinic when your family would be at its most vulnerable.
Too nervous to lay down, much less fall back asleep, you began pacing the large bedroom in your large sleep shirt. Every time a contraction locked up and spasmed through your lower belly and back, your fingers pressed the stopwatchâs clicker. And you breathed as the midwife had instructed. Silco kept you company, walking with you up and down the length of the bedroom, holding your hand and becoming an anchor to squeeze when contractions rolled through. Together, you both noted and kept track of their intervals. Their spacing  and length suggested that the little oneâs arrival was not imminent, but the consistency indicated that this was indeed labor.
The midwife arrived, ushered in by a half-asleep Sevika. Youâd bribed her with an absurd bonus and several pre-paid sessions at Babetteâs for her to crash in one of the Dropâs private guest rooms during these last days of your pregnancy. She was needed for security, and to stand-in for Silco when his attention and priorities would be elsewhere.
âGood luck,â sheâd grumbled, barely glancing at you before shutting the bedroom door, and trudging back down the hall.
The midwife was a petite, wizened Vastaya whoâd been selected for her services not only because of her field prowess, but because she was staunch loyalist to you and Silco. Shimmer had helped save more than one of her clients when the birthing process had begun to go sideways, and that was enough for her to hitch her wagon to your agenda.
She was also direct to the point of rudeness â a personality trait that was wholly welcome given the slippery, hidden, self-serving rhetoric you were used to having to deal with.
âTime?â she asked, setting her medical bag down on your dresser with a heavy thunk.
âForty-five seconds to a minute, about every seven minutes,â you answered. Then gasped and doubled over as another contraction bent you.
The midwife hummed. âHow long?â
âAbout an hour,â Silco said. He squeezed back at your hand as you rode out the current wave rolling through.
Clucking her tongue, the midwife shook her head, long ears slapping lightly against her horns.
âEarly.â
Silco frowned. âYou are being more than thoroughly compensated to show up whenever we ask.â
âIndeed. To the bed, miss. Letâs have a look.â
Once your legs were freed from the lock of the contraction, you shuffled to the bed. Silco helped you into position, and the midwife closed in. Her fingers were warm, but the tools were cold. The combination, along with your nerves, caused your lungs to shudder.
âFive,â she declared, drawing her head from between your thighs.
âThatâs halfway,â you chuckled weakly. Silco brushed his thumb over your knuckles
The midwife hummed in agreement. âTrue. But as discussed, this process is not linear. And being your first delivery, it is very likely this will take a while. How is the pain?â
âFine. Manageable.â It came out as a grit, but she didnât seem to doubt you.
âYou should eat and drink while you can. Is there anything else you want or need right now?â
Together, you and Silco walked to the small kitchen in your private quarters. You rested your forearms on the counter as the length of your spine hammocked behind you, hips gently swishing side-to-side. Silco kept the breakfast blissfully simple: toast with a light slather of butter, and a mug of warmed water with lemon.
Eating was slow going. Between the jitters and contractions, your appetite was seriously curbed. When you finally made it to the second piece of toast, Jinx shuffled into the kitchen, bleary-eyed and bed-headed. Her bedraggled demeanor did not last long though, as her whip-quick senses tuned into the energy of the space. Big, blue eyes tracked between Silco â unusually underdressed â and your strange posture. One could nearly hear the cogs in her head clicking and whirring.
âIs it time?!â
In a flash, she clambered onto the stool next to you, bright and tittering. Her exuberance washed over you in a relieving breeze. Reaching over, you ran a hand through her unkempt hair.
âSure is, kiddo.â
âWhen will he be here?â
âCould be a while yet, Jinx,â Silco answered. He set a glass of juice in front of her. âWhat would you like? Toad-in-the-hole? Porridge? Pancakes?â
âMake âem have a face!â she crowed.
A hook of a smile pulled at Silcoâs mouth as he turned back toward the stove.
Jinx settled onto the stool; legs kicking merrily beneath her as she sipped her juice.
âWhat does it feel like?â
âLike intense menstrual cramps.â
Her small face squished in a ponder. While you had had that conversation with her, Jinx had yet to broach into that aspect of puberty. Thus, she had no point of reference.
âKinda like when you roof-run after eating, and your abs cramp up,â you offered. âKind of.â
A contraction swelled upon you, and you grit your teeth, face pinching, head dropping. Silco stepped away from the stovetop, and placed a grounding hand between your shoulder blades. Jinx watched, eyes wide and worried. Timidly, she shifted toward you, pressing her forehead to your shoulder.
The pain continued, but was temporarily numbed by the overwhelming love and gratitude for the two people on either side of you.
Your family.
It was never part of the plan when it came to your Silcoâs ideas to lift Zaun up, but you wouldnât have it any other way. And in a few hours, three would be four. Your heart beat big, tapping against your throat as the contraction passed. You clicked the stopwatch.
âThat seems worse than roof-run cramps,â Jinx said suspiciously.
You chuffed. âLike I said: Kind of.â
Silco rubbed his hand up and down your spine a few times, before kissing your temple and returning to the stove.
âYou remember what we talked about?â you asked Jinx.
She fiddled with her hair, nodding. âI can come and go as I please.â
âRight. If you want to be with us, I want you to be there. If you donât, thatâs fine, too. You get to decide, and it doesnât have to be right now.â
Jinx nodded again, eyes staring into the middle-distance. Reaching over, you brushed your fingers through her hair again. Her eyes snapped back to yours.
âAre you scared?â
You gave her a reassuring smile.
âNo. Iâm happy.â
It wasnât a lie. But a few hours later, your happiness was thoroughly overshadowed by the pain of labor. It was staggering how it had intensified. How it was becoming near non-stop as the space between contractions shortened and shortened. Gravity felt impossible to contend with on top of everything else, so you sank onto your bedroom floor with a low, guttural growl.
Silco had been attentive throughout, anticipating your needs before you even voiced them. Ever your anchor, your source for steadiness. Even now, on your hands and knees, his own wide palms settled onto your hips and pressed in. It pulled an appreciative groan from your throat.
âYouâre doing so well, my love.â
âIt doesnât feel like it.â
Your eyes flicked to the bathroom door where Jinx was helping the midwife prepare a warm bath. You were proud of your girl. Admittedly, part of you doubted she would choose to stick around once labor became loud and more intense. When you could no longer keep yourself from crying out, hesitancy had flickered in her eyes, and her brows pitched in concern. But instead of dashing away, sheâd reached for your hand and held tight.
âIs there anything you can give her?â sheâd asked the midwife incredulously.
The female had smirked, impressed and moved by the girlâs protectiveness of you.
âI have mild pain relievers, but nothing that will fully numb â â
âShimmer?â
The midwifeâs black lips thinned. âThat is only to be used in emergencies,â she explained. âIt is too potent and powerful to be used for anything other than the most extreme circumstances. Which â âher eyes looked up at your haggard form on the bed â âdoes not seem probable. Her labor is progressing as it should. There is nothing to worry about.â
Jinx frowned, doubtful, and hunkered closer to your side.
âSeems like a dumb design that it hurts so much.â
âAgreed,â you wheezed.
âCome,â the midwife said, âletâs check you.â
She declared youâd progressed to eight centimeters. That had been three hours ago. And the pain just continued to climb and build.
A small sob burst through your teeth. Silco knelt at your side, quietly saying your name.
âIâm scared, Sil,â you admitted in a whisper. You were thankful Jinx wasnât near to hear you back-pedal. Your breath hitched and words tumbled out: âI donât know if I can do this.â
He took your warm and tear-streaked face between his hands, and repeated your name.
âLook at me.â
Reluctantly, your tired and wet eyes focused on his face. He looked at you with fierce earnestness, thumbs sweeping across the apples of your flushed cheeks. Suddenly, part of you grieved that the baby would never know Silco without his scars. Or yours. Outside and in.
Silco called your name again.
âLook at me,â he repeated. Your eyes slid back to his. Blue and red pinned you in place. âYou can do this. Iâve not met anyone more tenacious, nor strong, nor as spirited as you. Those are but a few of the reasons I fell in love with you so long ago.â His eyes softened now; his adoration made plain. âYouâve absolutely no reason to doubt yourself.â
A small hiccup bubbled from your mouth, and you pressed your face into the warmth of his palm, breathing him in deeply. Not having properly dressed for the day, he hadnât put any cologne on. The natural terra-sweet scent of his skin filled your nose. You were grateful for his support, respect, and belief in your abilities. A sudden, silly thought flitted across your mind.
âNot my dance moves?â
A single amused breath huffed from his throat. That infinitesimal smirk â one of the reasons youâd fallen in love with him â appeared on his lips. His blue eye flashed; as it often did when an idea struck him. Silco lifted to his feet, and used a strong grip to pull you to yours. He guided your arms to loop around his shoulders and neck, while his went to your low back. A weary chuckle left you as you understood. Your cheek was a relieved, heavy weight against his shoulder. It had to be a strange sight, this dance configuration: with your body slouched against his, massive belly hanging between you two. Slowly, your feet began gently shifting side-to-side.
âAdmittedly,â he murmured against your crown, âyour dance moves leave something to be desired right now.â
You laughed, even as another contraction swelled within you. Silcoâs hands firmed up on your body, holding you upright as it moved through your body.
âIâll make it up to you,â you hissed as most of the pain subsided. It was such now that there was no longer any real relief.
âA dance and a suck job? Lucky me.â
Your fingers pinched Silcoâs upper back, and you felt the tremor of silent laughter in his shoulders.
âTubâs ready!â Jinx sang as she flounced out of the bathroom.
Managing to smile at her, despite another great, contracting swell that threatened to bring you to your knees, you took her hand. Silco kept a strong arm wrapped around your middle, and you followed Jinx into the humid warmth of the bathroom.
The water helped. Its heat soothed your pained muscles and aching bones. The irony was not lost on you that you found peace in it. After a few minutes of settling into the tub, you gave Silco a look that to anyone else may have seemed like nothing. But he caught the message in your eyes, and tucked himself close to the tubâs edge, taking your hand. Jinx huddled herself into his lap, nervously fingering the buttons on his shirt.
About an hour later, the midwifeâs large ears flicked in your direction as the quality of your breath shifted, as the sounds leaving you turned deeper and more animal. Her deft hands slipped into the water and between your legs.
âSomething changed,â you gasped, hunching slightly. âIt feels like â â
âItâs time,â she said, pulling her hands from the water. Somehow, sheâd also stripped your underwear off in the same movement without you noticing. âItâs time to push.â
Push. The word settled into your body with a deep, innate knowing.
Yes. Thatâs what you were feeling. The near uncontrollable need to bare down. An old, predetermined instinct washed over you. You could do this.
But you did not want to do it alone.
âSil.â
The grit of his name and the way you shifted yourself forward spurred your partner into understanding. Swiftly, he stood, deposited Jinx onto the stool heâd vacated, and then stepped into the tub, sliding in behind you. Settling against his chest, your hand ferociously intertwined with his. His heart beat firmly against your back.
âYou can do this,â he whispered into your ear.
âGive me your other hand, dear,â the midwife said. You did so and she guided it under the water, preparing you to feel and catch. âPush.â
âPush! Push!â Jinx cried, her little fists pumping and bopping in the air madly.
Gritting your teeth, you did just that. A sound you didnât know you were capable of making burst from your lungs. When the air ran out, you slumped against Silcoâs chest.
âBreath in,â the midwife demanded. You did so. âPush!â
You did again, a roar ripping from your chest. A roar that ended in a surprised yip as something into your hand.
âAgain,â the midwife demanded.
And you complied, baring down with everything you had. With all the might and tenacity and power your body could exert. Another battle cry echoed off the bathroom tiles, and a solid weight slid into your hand. You ripped your other hand from Silcoâs grip, and pulled a wriggling newborn from the water.
âItâs a boy!â Jinx yelled, bouncing up and down in her seat.
Her brotherâs face squidged, and his pink mouth opened in an announcing wail. You joined in and pulled the babe to your chest. Silco went very still behind you, scarcely breathing. Then his hands appeared over yours, cradling the baby at your chest. Like on the night youâd taken in Jinx, he pulled his legs up around you both and held tight.
Later, once the placenta had passed (something Jinx was equally horrified and enthralled by) you were helped out of the tub, and cleaned. The midwife tied off the babeâs umbilical cord, and once some time passed, you watched with an incredibly full heart as Silco severed it.
You werenât sure if youâd ever seen the expression on your partnerâs face. A soft, careful, wonderous thing. Then it hit you all at once. You were watching Silco fall in love. The notion took your breath away and fresh tears welled in your eyes. Jinx clung to you, and you to her.
âThank you for being with me, Jinx. It helped.â
The girl beamed up at you, holding on tighter.
âI think it is your turn for a shower, sir,â the midwife said, twisting off the umbilical nub.
Silco watched her hands like a hawk as she did. He slid in once she finished, and wrapped him in a blanket Jinx had decorated. It was a small thing, but you caught the tremor in his hands. Keeping Jinx tucked against your side, you came to stand next to him.
âHeâll be here when you get out of the shower,â you whispered, voice hoarse.
âYeah! Go get the baby juice off you!â Jinx ordered.
Silcoâs expression of awe turned to one of bemusement as he glanced at your daughter.
âYes. I suppose I should.â
Your own hands shook a bit as you gathered your son â your son! You wondered if the shock would wear off â and ushered Jinx to follow the midwife out of the bathroom.
With no small amount of effort, your body, beyond sore and exhausted, climbed into bed. The baby cooed and nuzzled and fussed against your chest as you settled into the pillows and duvet. Jinx climbed in on the opposite side, and snuggled close.
âHeâs already sleeping!â
âItâs hard work being born. Donât you remember?â you chuckled.
Jinx laughed, âNo!â
A small smile curled the midwifeâs mouth as she snapped her bag shut. She turned to you and bowed her head.
âCongratulations.â
âThank you,â you said, eyes on your boy. Then you lifted them to hers, and said again, âAnd thank you.â
She nodded again, horns catching the light in the room.
âIt was my honor.â
She gave you and the baby one last cursory check over, and took her leave.
A few moments after she left, there was a knock on the door, and Sevika stuck her head in.
âOgre!â Jinx cried. âI gotta brother!â
Even Sevikaâs presence couldnât dampen Jinxâs mood.
Silcoâs lieutenant grunted, and stepped over to the bed. She stayed at a distance though, craning her neck to peer down at you and the baby.
âYep. Thatâs a baby. Congrats.â
âThank you, Sevika.â
Behind her, Silco emerged from the foggy bathroom in a fresh pair of slacks and an unbuttoned shirt. Sevika tilted her strong chin in his direction and he nodded back.
âIâll leave you all to it then,â she said.
Her poncho twirled as she spun back to leave. As she and Silco crossed paths, a metal finger tip whipped out from beneath the red fabric, and poked his bare belly. He jolted and shuddered. He sneered at her, but she just snickered and slipped out of the room.
Silco shook his head, damp hair beginning to curl at the ends. He rounded the bed, and climbed in, sandwiching Jinx between your bodies. He leaned over the girlâs head and kissed you.
âWhatâre we gonna name him?â Jinx pipped.
You and Silco exchanged a look.
âIâm not sure,â you admitted.
âIâm sure weâll come up with something.â he added.
Immediately, Jinx began rattling off all her suggestions.
Before a name could be decided, you fell asleep. Jinx followed shortly after; her plump cheek pressed against your shoulder. Gingerly, Silco lifted the baby from your arms, and brought him to his bare chest. The boy tensed, and then melted, a small wispy sigh leaving him.
Silco melted, too; a foreign, near indescribable softness filling him up. He brought his hand to the boyâs back, its length and width nearly covering all of him. His son was so small.
His son. His son.
Emotions gripped him so intensely he nearly choked.
Elation, love, fear.
Grief.
There was grief that his child was born technically as a citizen of Piltover. But that anguish was small compared to the other one that had been tucked away in the scar tissue of Silcoâs heart ever since you had told him of the pregnancy. A pain that he hated he harbored.
The secret grief was that Vander wasnât here to see this. The grief that his Brother had ruined any chance of participating in this milestone. The grief of Vanderâs death (justified though it was) was scratched open as Silcoâs son lay on his heart. The grief that, had things gone differently, Silco wouldâve named the boy after his Brother.
âSil.â
Silcoâs head whipped around at the sound of your voice. Your beautiful, exhausted, beautiful face shone up at him. There was a smile on your lips that he wished to taste, so he leaned over Jinxâs head again and pressed his mouth to yours.Â
âI told you you could do it,â he whispered leaning back. You smiled and nodded wearily.
The baby grunted and shifted against Silcoâs chest, and he pet the back of his head so, so softly. It broke your heart into a million pieces, and then they jumped right back together. Your eyes slid back up to your partnerâs profile.
You felt his grief, because it was yours, too.
âI know, Silco,â you whispered. He looked over to you. Jinx snored softly between. âI wish it had been different, too.â
Silcoâs eyebrow dropped, and his lips softened. He glanced down at the baby on his chest, and chuckled ruefully.
âI truly donât know what to name him.â
You shrugged. âWeâll figure it out.â
He nodded. You sat in silence for a while, listening to your children breath. Jinxâs raspy breaths and the babyâs snuffling. It was music to your ears. You would never tire of hearing it.
Just as you were about to doze again, you felt Silcoâs energy shift. Eyes sharpening onto him, you watched as he first gently ran his fingers over Jinxâs freckled cheek. Then, so carefully, he lifted the baby from his chest so he could look at his small face.
âYou and your sister will have better than we did,â he promised. âMe and your mother will give you a nation.â
Your sonâs eyes fluttered open and closed, the bud of his mouth stretching into what looked like a small smile. Your throat tightened horribly, and you tucked your nose into Jinxâs crown.
When you were sure you could speak without choking, you lifted your head and said, âWe promise.â
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jealousy headcanons and scenarios r my kryptonite! especially for emotionally constipated characters lol. for shanks, mihawk, and crocodile seeing their crush interacting with someone that turns out to be said crush's ex? there's chemistry between the exes and are those lingering looks he's seeing?! đ«ą
OOOOOOOO GOOD CHOICES GOOD CHOICES đđ»đđ»đđ» I must say I am weak for some jealousy too đ why does it have to be so hot in fiction huh??? Or make me feel wanted????? Rude đ€
Three jealous DILFs coming right up đ«Ą
Jealousy from Shanks, Mihawk, and Sir Crocodile
Your ex comes back into your life and stirs up some feelings - How are these men taking it?
Form this took: started as a bulleted headcanons but then became a scenario/ficlet for each ahsdjajskdajs
Word count: Shanks - 1.1 k, Mihawk - 1.2 k, Croc - 1.2 k
Shanks
The clinging and diverting type
This mf tries to be sneaky about it
Key word: tries
Itâs no secret that Shanks is the jovial sort and that his welcome and cheer extend easily to newcomers. However, something curious happens when the next one joins your large table.
You always have at least a part of Shanksâ attention, so the way you shift uncomfortably and curl slightly in on yourself is not going to go unnoticed. You catch yourself and relax back into your usual posture, but Shanks knows you well enough to see thereâs a posed touch to all your expressions. It tames them from the genuine displays of your thoughts and emotions that Shanks so loves into something more suited to a diplomat seeking favor. Now that had him wary.
It took no genius to notice that each time a great laugh broke out your eyes would sweep to that newcomer to take them in, or how your would flicker your gaze over to them every time you had the spotlight, as if seeking approval.
Gods Shanks hopes that isnât the case
Driven to seek comfort in your presence, Shanks leans into his affectionate nature to keep close to you. You canât think too long on someone else with him constantly leaning into your space to whisper dumb jokes and silly observations. He made those laughs and he gets to enjoy them up close and personal. You may look to others but you always look back to him when he ventures to lay his hand on your shoulder or hand or thigh and give a happy, hearty squeeze before retreating. He relishes in the fact that you had been uncertain of his touch when you first met yet now you trust and even welcome his hand on you.
Shanks is burst right out of his bubble of avoidance when you suddenly jolt and sit straight, separating yourself from his side.
The cause of his sudden and very dire lack of you is that very same newcomer. The newcomer, who is leaning in so close to you. The newcomer, who now has all of your attention. The newcomer, who is giving you a smile that Shanks very much does not like. Itâs very charming and holds a twinge of remorse that Shanks knows from experience would strike straight and true right to your heart
âIâm glad to see you in happier times. You look good,â they have the audacity to say, the words even seeping with honesty. Shanks isn't sure he focused on anything in his life as hard as he does on your reaction in this moment.
Your smile is breathtaking, one he isn't sure heâs seen before, all affection and understanding and a dusting of yearning. It turns his heart to goo right before it clamps it tight and squeezes, because that smile isn't for him. He needs that smile to be for him. His mouth is moving before the thought even sinks in.
âWe do like to keep things cheerful here!â Shanks chuckles to the newcomer. He turns to you, making sure to catch your eye. âLifeâs too short to anchor yourself to your sorrows.â Now back to the newcomer. âAnd this one-â an arm slips around your shoulders, hugging you to his warm side, â-helps keep it that way.â
The smile you give him isnât quite as overflowing with emotion as the one you gave the newcomer, but he loves it all the same.
Unfortunately, thatâs not the end of it and the newcomer actually sits down on your other side and insists on catching up. Shanks is a damn charmer though, and he knows it, so heâs not one to give up on keeping your attention through the night.
He stays in the conversation easily, not deterred by the newcomer outsider bringing up shared memories with you, even though they squeeze at his heart and lungs tighter and tighter. He uses it to get to know more of you, a part of him truly enjoying the new insights. However, a much larger part is simply set on keeping the reminiscing light instead of romantically charged.
As the time and drinks flow, his and the outsider's tactics get more obvious yet you get more oblivious, simply cruising on the comfy fuzz everything had taken on and enjoying the company. Your unintentional refusal to pick a favorite has both of them getting desperate and daring.
Try as they might, the outsider is clearly outmatched
By the end of the night youâre wearing Shanks like a perfume, heâs stuck to your skin at the heart of your body, chest always tight to your back or side, chin often hooked over your shoulder or on top of your head. His slight scruff tickling at your ear when he moves and talks is exceedingly distracting. So is the softness of his hair on your neck when he turns his head to bed his cheek into your shoulder and pull you a little tighter to him, saying its just 'cause he's a little sleepy and trying to get comfy. He unearths himself from his resting place only to seek it again every few minutes.
His arm is always around you when he wasnât using it to drink (of course) or toy with you - tugging at your clothes for attention, tickling your sides to interrupt you, sweetly scratching your scalp to derail your train of thought, teasingly rubbing a thumb into your hip or thigh to feel you squirm.
Shanks is a handsy motherfucker (ironic right-), so you donât take any of this as a proclamation of his love. The most you think is that it has just hit that point in your journey together where his vast appetite for partners has finally swept its way to focus on you.
You end the night giggling the whole stumbling way back to the ship, tucked into Shanksâ side. You manage to stay there despite being at the mercy of both of your swaying, constantly blending whoâs supporting and whoâs slipping. Your ex is far from your mind when Shanks tucks you in sweetly (well⊠sweetly to a drunk; in all reality you kinda flopped in, but he did make sure you were shoeless and properly under the blankets, and he even shuffled back in to put water, crackers, and medicine where you could reach).
Shanks does however have a flash of your ex in his mind when he's happily gloating to himself that he had won.
His last blurry thoughts are of how to make sure you and everyone else unquestionably knows that you are off limits. The unspoken claim understood by the crew while he works at winning you over doesn't seem to be enough anymore. Especially if that pesky ex comes sniffing around again. Maybe they just need a lesson in what staring down Conquerorâs Haki truly feels like.
Mihawk
The intimidating and biting type
Mihawk would likely be the most covert of these three, at least as far as your notice goes
Your ex has no questions about Mihawkâs dislike for them. With his reputation as emotionless and solitary, itâs not guaranteed that your ex will put two and two together to realize that Mihawk's dislike stems from their previous relationship with you. Even if Mihawk hints at it, they'll tell themselves that they're imagining things. Itâs much more likely that theyâll think itâs because Mihawk is that way with all but the Few Exceptions, and they have definitely not made the cut.
It definitely didnât help that they were a marine
Mihawk is already unhappy to see a marine on his doorstep, no doubt sent to yip at him about some nonsense or other that the admirals were in a twist over. That unhappiness quadruples when he hears you tentatively call to this marine by name, and then it multiplies again when the marine responds by breathing out your own name with shock and hope
This pest needs to be out of his castle quickly
Yet he can't bring himself to simply throw them out when you come over so disgustingly happy to see them. There were a few times where he'd interrupted or snuffed out your joy while adjusting to you joining his home, and he found the feeling it gave him insufferable. That's what forces him to let the pest in and guide them with you to the smaller dining room.
Heâd simply have to find what the pest needs fast and expedite whatever catching up you two apparently must do.
That's easier said than done; you and the pest are insistent on taking time between flustered pleasantries to share uncertain smiles and lingering looks of longing in charged silence.
It's giving him the worst mood he'd had in years.
At first he tries to discourage this lingering with his mere presence. He knows he's capable of pumping out enough sheer displeasure into the air to knock out a squadron, so he keeps it to his other tools: body language that makes him feel larger than the room and a glare sharp enough to split hair. Both make the pest cringe and shy away, but the chance to gain your favor makes them push through it. Even though he hates it, Mihawk can't blame them.
Mihawk can tell that his mood is setting you on edge too - almost anyone would with the perturbed looks you've been sending his way - but that isn't technically taking your joy, so he doesn't back off.
In fact, he decides it's time to push even more.
He begins interjecting in your conversation, mostly with little insults to take the wind out of the pest's sails.
You aren't yet tipped off that there's something hiding behind his mood; he was never fond of braggarts so it isn't so out of the ordinary for him to humble someone. Of course, you wouldn't exactly call what your ex is doing "bragging" so much as filling you in on their growing career. They are actually relatively humble about it, clearly just excited to fill you in and not phrasing things to seek your praise.
Then Mihawk starts complimenting you.
Mihawk is not one to dish out praise. You've had to fight tooth and nail to get the mere drops of it you'd tasted so far, so his sudden highlighting of your positive traits trips your sensors. It isn't exactly alarm bells ringing, more it makes you feel like there's something you're missing. You figure it's the sudden disruption and old instincts from his Marine Hunter days cropping up.
You would have never guessed that his aim with his nitpicking and praising is to make sure your ex knows for a fact that you are out of their league. They don't deserve you. But he could.
No matter the reason though, you certainly relish in Mihawk calling you things such as "necessary for [his] castle", "smarter than those inane marine trials", "finally proficient and needing no distractions to ruin that", and "better company than a bunch of sea monkeys". Sure, from most anyone else they'd feel slightly insulting, but from everything you've so far seen of Mihawk that's a glowing review.
The uncanny nature of this whole interaction, from Mihawk's tank in mood to the sudden praise, keeps your focus away from your ever shrinking ex.
Mihawk is simply delighted to see your attention going to its rightful place, on him. You should be looking at him with such interest and joy. You should be seeking his approval; not some simpering swine's.
He figures he's been patient enough (it's been almost a whole ten minutes after all) and it is time to end this farce.
Mihawk stands from his spot and goes to sift through the wine rack. He returns with an above average vintage (even by his tastes) and two glasses. He sets them at the corner of the table so he can deftly open the wine. The silence as you both watch him work elates him.
The first glass is placed in front of his seat and swiftly filled. You watch the action with admiration for his fluid and confident motions. The pest watches with growing envy.
The second glass is filled while still sat in the corner, keeping its owner ambiguous.
The bottle leaves one hand and that glass enters the other, coming with Mihawk as he moves to stand behind your chair.
His full height set strongly in sharp shoulders and straight spine cuts a devilish figure behind you. Your ex's first impression was that he is haunting you, but there's some little whisper in their mind that, no, Mihawk is protecting you.
That whisper gets stronger as Mihawk leans forward over you, getting much too close to be polite while he places the wine glass down directly in front of you. His eyes hold the pest's with an air of warning the whole time.
Mihawk settles back upright, placing a hand on both carved corners decorating the back of your chair. The act seems clearly possessive. But surely Mihawk couldn't have found some special fondness for you?
You are none the wiser to Mihawk's antics behind you, too enraptured by the closeness of his reaching arm then too distracted checking out the color and aroma of your gifted wine.
Having at least enough pieces of a functional brain to pick up on that cue, the pest begins rushing out some excuses and makes to leave.
Kind as you are, you tell them they don't have to rush off, but they're adamant. You're a bit sad to see this chance meeting end so quickly, but your mind quickly settles on thinking it's for the best. Your memories of them are distant enough to be cherry picked and seeing them scamper off so easily reminds you that there are reasons you parted.
Mihawk chases escorts them out and returns to you looking much less belligerent and much more at ease. You figure it best to not risk ruining the positive turn by questioning it, yet you can't help but ask one thing.
"I usually have to pour my own wine from the kitchen's rack. What's the occasion?"
Mihawk takes a sip and the comfort of one of his favored wines coming over his senses coerces him into loosening his tongue.
"You've been good." Another sip and he thoughtfully adds, "I could give you more rewards."
Sir Crocodile
The assertive and analytical type
Despite Croc being a plotter, I see him as being quite direct in this situation
Ok yeah maybe he insists itâs because you can do better and youâre definitely above crawling back to an ex (âyou broke up for a reason didnât you?â)
But maybe he also takes this as his opportune moment to get you into his clutches.
Who could blame him when he feels the threat of such an unworthy little nobody working so hard to catch your eye.
Croc always keeps an eye on you, no matter what else demands his attention. Sure, there's an obsessive edge to it, but he just needs to know what you're up to - has to know you're safe near for when he needs you. You are the best assistant he's ever seen after all, and he's been through an army's worth. He's sure his new organization would've crumbled if you weren't there to balance out the clown and his circus monkeys constantly shooting themselves in the foot (sometimes literally).
Many of those circus monkeys were even stupid enough to try and approach you themselves. Luckily for him, you seem about as enthused on the idea of you having a partner as he is.
Which brings us back to his irritation that you haven't swatted that bug away from you. No, instead you seem to be rather tolerant of their buzzing. Maybe even fond.
That just won't do.
The crowds at this schmooze-fest, thrown to entice more pirates and criminals alike, part easily for his beeline to you.
It only irritates him even more that you don't notice him until you're swallowed by his shadow. You even have the audacity to look surprised when you turn to him.
And you truly are surprised - as far as you know there's no reason for Croc's usual grimace to turn into something so stormy, especially directed at you. It quickly jumps to your ex however and focuses that torrent there.
"I don't know you," Croc states gruffly.
"I'm-"
"Your name doesn't matter," Croc interrupts. "What do you do? Why are you here?"
And thus begins the interrogation. You can only watch perplexed as Sir Croc tugs every bit of information he could want out of your ex, making sure to cut off anything he didn't care to hear. That frustrated look and tone become more bored by the second. Every tone tells your ex that they're barely worth the breath to speak, causing them to shrink even faster than Sir Croc's anger did.
You catch their eye and send them a sympathetic smile, and then Croc moves on to you.
"And you," he starts roughly. He lets you sit in suspense while he drags those hooded purple eyes from the crown of your head to the toes of your shoes and back. "Why are you here?"
You're taken absolutely aback by the question, mouth flapping from a mix of shock and offense. You have quite a list of things you keep your eye on at these parties; did he want you to go down the whole thing? After a deep breath, you try, "To gather informationof and from possible allies and help build relationships?"
"Wrong."
Well, at least he let you finish your sentence. Time to try again.
"To make sure the night runs smoothly," you say much more surely. It's an apt description of your overall job.
"Wrong again." Yep, that grimace is now definitely a smirk. One that only widens when you purse your lips and stare him down. You notice the genuine amusement shining in Croc's eyes and relax a touch, content to let him guide this to whatever destination he has planned.
"Then please, Sir, tell me," you relent. "Why am I here?"
He takes a deep puff of his cigar before pulling it from his lips and watching the smoke swirl out with his exhale. You watch it too - admire how handsome he looks reappearing through the haze. Enjoying how small you feel as he leans over you through its last remnants.
He rarely touches you with his golden hook, always using his hand (you've yet to realize it's because he prefers to feel you on his skin). Now, though, he raises it towards you. You're surprised yet again when the curve touches beneath your chin to tilt your face just a little higher; the metal isn't cold like you thought it would be. It must be warmed from resting on his thigh. You shake away the thought of warming it further.
He takes his time assessing you, giving you your own time to look over his breathtakingly chiseled face, admire his striking scar, forget everything else but his eyes on you.
Without intention, you gravitate towards him, leaning forward enough into him and that golden hook drawing you that you have to catch yourself with a stumbling step. The fond chuckle he gives in response resonates deep and rich and feels like a reward flowing over you.
"You, my dear," Sir Crocodile says with unfamiliar mirth, "are here to keep me happy."
"And how would you like me to do that, Sir?" you whisper back.
At first, that just earns you a smile. Then he's drawing his hook along your jaw, tickling the tip around your ear, drawing it gently across your cheek. It ends its journey on your lips, ever so gently pulling your bottom lip down before letting it flick back up when he draws his arm away. You watch the glimmering gold retreat. He's greedy for more of the longing he sees in your eyes. He leans slightly lower and gives you back that hook, this time in the form of an offered arm.
"With your company, of course," He finally answers. The warmth you hear in the drawl of his voice is beautiful.
You slip your hand into the crook of his arm, happy you can feel his body heat through the soft fabric of his shirt.
Halfway back to his previous spot, you realize that you'd become so distracted that you hadn't even said goodbye to your ex. You had wanted to exchange numbers, maybe truly get back in touch and feel out if things would be better this time. Noting how deep your draw to Croc is, you already feel that that would be a dead end. Well, maybe some time rekindling things would help your daydreaming and wishing for Sir Croc finally start ebbing away.
"Did you see where they went?"
Croc has to hold in his smile at your question. "They scurried off on you. It's for the best though; they were exceedingly unimpressive."
You couldn't help but snort at his assessment.
After guiding you to your chair and pushing it in, Croc settles down himself. When he reaches for his awaiting drink, he notices Daz Bonez come back into the room, wiping his hands off on his pants. Their eyes meet and Daz Bones gives a firm nod before heading back to his other duties for the night.
Sir Croc smirks and takes a heavy sip of scotch.
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